Art Annoys Wyoming Coal Industry | Mother Jones

A sculpture highlighting the environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels has righteously pissed off fossil fuel interests in Wyoming. British artist Chris Drury is at work on a piece that depicting a climate-change-caused onslaught of mountain pine beetles, which are destroying the region's forests. It has been commissioned for the University of Wyoming campus in Cheyenne. The Billings Gazette reports that the sulpture, "Carbon Sink," will feature a "flat whirlpool of beetle-killed logs spiraling into a vortex of charred, black wood and studded with large lumps of Wyoming coal."

Wyoming's coal industry, however, is nonplussed, and one industry representative has suggested this slight could impact donations to the university

The Transplanted Forest: A Bold Experiment in Preemptive Climate Adaptation | Ecosystems | DISCOVER Magazine

With global temperatures rising, British Columbia is taking aggressive action to protect one of its most valuable natural resources—timber forests—from shifting climate zones.
... Leaving nothing to chance, the government is now embarking on the largest assisted-migration project in history by moving some 250,000 larch seedlings up to 200 miles outside the species’ native range.