<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.drought.gov/news/21st-century-droughts-are-transforming-ecosystems-2024-08-05&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTEyNTE3MjI3NDEzNTk3MjMwODQyGjM2YjY2MmYwZmUxMTMyOTI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3AbXXJ9lHtBK8elR4zDbPK" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://www.drought.gov/news/21st-century-droughts-are-transforming-ecosystems-2024-08-05%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYACoUMTEyNTE3MjI3NDEzNTk3MjMwODQyGjM2YjY2MmYwZmUxMTMyOTI6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAOvVaw3AbXXJ9lHtBK8elR4zDbPK&source=gmail&ust=1723400864094000&usg=AOvVaw3h6obRHmoW0f5YwlaFGkzg" style="color: rgb(66, 127, 237); display: inline; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;" class="">21st-Century <b class="">Droughts</b> Are Transforming Ecosystems | August 5, 2024</a></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);" class=""><a style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);" class="">Drought.gov</a></div><div style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;" class="">Alaska's boreal forests are declining , as increasing drought stress and fire kill off the next generation of conifer trees ...</div></div></div></body></html>