Global Warming is Killing The Oldest Known Living Organism On the Planet
There are some signs that in the US 2018 will be the year of women and climate voters in the upcoming November elections. On Monday, the world’s leading climate scientists at the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an urgent and unprecedented report warning there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5 'C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. Recent super hurricanes and typhoons in Asia and America are blamed on global warming trends. But many people may be unaware that the world's oldest known living organism is now facing a slow death due to global warming and drought trends.
Pando (Latin for "I spread out"), also known as the Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of an individual male quaking aspen determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The plant occupies 43 hectares (106 acres) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kilograms, making it the heaviest known organism. The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms. Some scientists claim Pando's age is closer to one million years.
Pando is located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest, at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in south-central Utah, United States. Pando is currently thought to be dying. The Western Aspen Alliance, a research group at Utah State University’s S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources, has been studying the tree in an effort to save it, and the United States Forest Service is currently experimenting with several 5-acre sections of it in an effort to find a means to save it.
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