Caption

Dead spruce trees, broken by wind, lying in disarray, forest dieback in the Arnsberg Forest nature park Park, over 70 per cent of the spruce trees are diseased, damaged, mostly by the bark beetle, which was able to spread due to drought and heat, climate change, near Hirschberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Apr 26, 2023

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24F70_316

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

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172,3Mb (15,8Mb) / 31,7in x 21,1in / 9504 x 6336 (300dpi)

Keywords

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