What Plant Sweat Can Tell Us About Wildfires
The Hog Fire burns outside of Susanville, California, in July 2020.Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP (Getty Images)The way plants sweat could be a valuable tool in helping us predict how wildfires behave. That’s the conclusion of a recent study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography from researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The temperatures of plants can tell us a lot about their health and the health of the ecosystems they live in. Under normal conditions, plants take in water through their roots and release it…