Author: Kiyo Dörrer

Exploring the Impact of Forest Loss on Climate Change Driving through the Harz region in central Germany feels like entering an eerie post-apocalyptic landscape. Row after row of gray, dry naked trees stretch into the sky like a sea of brittle needles. This decades-old forest has been reduced to a tree graveyard in just a couple of years. “Nowhere else in Central Europe can you experience the climate crisis like here in the Harz Mountains,” said Roland Pietsch, head of the Harz National Park. Conifer forests across Germany are deteriorating under the combined pressures of droughts, storms, and invasive pests,…