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I'm not readily finding an (English language) origin story online for the term and since it's a German word, searching brings up mostly German resources and my

I'm not readily finding an (English language) origin story online for the term and since it's a German word, searching brings up mostly German resources and my German isn't that good. Here is an English language piece on forest dieback: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_dieback https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_dieback I recall the story from some college class I had but my memory isn't what it used to be. Perhaps I'm wrong about the origin story. Thank you for supplying the word. I always want to say waldtot and I know that's not right.

wolverine876 5y ago
> I'm not readily finding an (English language) origin story online for the term FWIW, in English it goes back at least to a Nov. 1983 Financial Times article, by which time the term was apparently very well known in Germany: "A survey conducted in mid-summer by the Allensbach Institute revealed that 99 per cent of those asked had heard of Waldsterben—the death of Germany's forests."