Bark beetles are eating through Germany's Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse | Matthias Schrader & Dana Beltaji

CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany—Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz Mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed. Known as “book printers” for the lines they eat into the bark that fan out from a single spine resembling words on a page, these eight-toothed…

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