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“There’s kind of like a moral injury of extinction,” he said. “This is a way to try to repair that.” grist.org/solutions/th...

grist.orgThe deadly experiment that could save the American elmResearchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.

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relatedly, www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/c...

nytimes.comThe Overlapping Plagues Quietly Devastating American Forests (Gift Article)Trees are suffering one devastating epidemic after another, unleashed by insects and bacteria that enter the country because of global trade.

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