Eucalyptus trees are spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires

Eucalyptus trees are spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Eucalyptus trees are grown in plantations in nearly 100 countries and planted as city trees on every continent besides Antarctica.

If you’ve been around the world a couple of times or maybe more, you’ll have seen the sights of gum trees on almost every foreign shore.
But climate change bringing hotter, drier conditions means the trees – especially plantations of Eucalyptus globu… [788 chars]

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