Forests suffering from climate extremes, not heat, EPFL math shows

Lausanne, Switzerland GenevaLunch – Mathematicians at EPFL, the Lausanne-based Polytechnic Institute, are giving forest guardians a helping hand in better understanding what is happening to the tree population.
Half of the Scots pines in the Vige/Visp forest in canton Valais, for example, have died in the past 20 years, and mathematical models have made it clear …