Forests dying from chronic climate stress

— not fire, not logging, not storms. Chronic stress. Trees that stood for centuries now dying at accelerating rates across Australia. Globally, a massive analysis reveals forests becoming "more uniform," dominated by fast-growing "sprinter" trees that process carbon less effectively. West Antarctic meltwater delivers iron to the Southern Ocean in forms marine life cannot use. Methane accumulates faster as the atmosphere's breakdown capacity temporarily slows. These signals are vast, slow, and a ...

The silence here is structural, not accidental. The signal exceeds the processing capacity of existing institutions. There is no 24-hour news cycle for chronic forest stress. There is no quarterly report for methane chemistry. The collective has no organ for metabolising what happens over decades — and so the signal accumulates, unprocessed, in the background of every other story.