Hindu: Some of these responses, including insect outbreaks, wildfire, and forest dieback, may adversely affect people as well as ecosystems and their plants and animals. According to a press release issued by EurekAlert, the U.S. Geological Survey led a new assessment of the implications of a warming world on “ecological thresholds” in North America. The report, which was commissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and authored by a team of federal and academic climate …