Australia’s alpine ash forests could shrink 65% in 100 years, but the biggest clue is that young trees may seed far earlier than scientists assumed | World News

[ad_1] Southeastern Australia’s iconic alpine ash forests face a stark future, with projections indicating a significant contraction due to changing fire patterns. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons When visualising the mountain tops of southeastern Australia, one might conjure up an image of a typical Alpine environment. We picture ourselves walking under the huge, light-barked cover of […]

IRS to cut 20,000 jobs as Trump administration moves to shrink federal workforce

[ad_1] The US internal revenue service (IRS) has started laying off staff as part of sweeping job cuts that could see up to 20,000 employees, around a quarter of its entire workforce, lose their jobs, according to three people familiar with the matter.The layoffs began on Friday and will initially hit the IRS’s office of […]