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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/bristlecone_pine.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Worlds Longest-Living Trees Crowded Out by Climate Change' data-article-id='2660'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='4875'>The bristlecone pine is the longest-living thing on Earth.</span> <span data-start-time='4875' data-end-time='13604'>These trees, with their strangely shaped, wind-beaten limbs, can live up to 5,000 years.</span> <span data-start-time='13604' data-end-time='22313'>But experts worry that a warming climate in some areas may threaten its future.</span> <span data-start-time='22313' data-end-time='36083'>Researchers say warmer weather is permitting a similar kind of tree, the limber pine, to take over good growing places from the ancient bristlecone.</span> <span data-start-time='36083' data-end-time='43354'>They say the tree is being crowded out of mountainous areas where it grows.</span> <span data-start-time='43354' data-end-time='56729'>Scientists at the University of California, Davis, compared the competing species to two old men in a very slow race up a mountainside.</span> <span data-start-time='56729' data-end-time='63854'>This race between such slow-growing trees takes thousands of years.</span> <span data-start-time='63854' data-end-time='69292'>They say climate change is causing the competition.</span> <span data-start-time='69292' data-end-time='73854'>Brian Smithers led the research project.</span> <span data-start-time='73854' data-end-time='80750'>His team worked with the U.S. Forest Service to study the trees.</span> <span data-start-time='80750' data-end-time='86167'>“Limber pine is taking all the good spots,” he said.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/bristlecone_pine.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=9484 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/what_does_pine_mean.m4a'>What does pine mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='yearn'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/yearn.m4a'><span>yearn</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/branch.m4a'><span>branch</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/compete.m4a'><span>compete</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/grow.m4a'><span>grow</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=9485 data-hint-location='22313' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/what_tree_is_taking_over.m4a'>What tree is taking over?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='limber pine'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/mighty_oak.m4a'><span>mighty oak</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/evergreen.m4a'><span>evergreen</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/bristle_cone.m4a'><span>bristle cone</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/limber_pine.m4a'><span>limber pine</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=9486 data-hint-location='63854' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/they_say__blank__is_causing_the_competition.m4a'>They say <span class='blank'>climate change</span> is causing the competition.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='climate change'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/more_rain.m4a'><span>more rain</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/climate_change.m4a'><span>climate change</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/over_growth.m4a'><span>over growth</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2142/dry_conditions.m4a'><span>dry conditions</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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