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Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist said.
Environmentalists are questioning the legal justification offered for what would be the only active oil well inside the nation's first national forest.
More than 200 of Ole Saloli's cows have died, ruining his children's inheritance and his safety net for old age. Now he wanders miles seeking pasture for the surviving animals, his bare feet as cracked and dry as the Kenyan earth he sleeps upon.
In a Sept. 1 story about the cemetery where Michael Jackson is now entombed, The Associated Press erroneously reported that funeral services for actress Marilyn Monroe were held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Monroe's 1962 services were held at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
Authorities stepped up patrols Friday near an area of Jefferson National Forest where a Virginia Tech couple described by their minister as "godly young people" were found slain.
Two wildfires northeast of Los Angeles fouled the air breathed by millions of Southern Californians on Wednesday, but the flames were burning away from suburbs on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and no homes had been lost.
In a bizarre parasitic death sentence, a fungus turns carpenter ants into the walking dead and gets them to die in a spot that's perfect for the fungus to grow and reproduce.
Smokey Bear is turning 65, but he’s not going into hibernation with his mission of fire prevention. He’s got his own Facebook page, and has just launched profile pages on Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. His new campaign urges young adults to “Get Your Smokey On!”
A forest fire on the Canary Island of La Palma was brought under control Tuesday and another that raged for two weeks in Spain's northern Catalonia region has been extinguished, an emergency official said.
The Kenyan government will evict thousands of people from the country's largest forest to protect the watershed for Lake Victoria, a source of the Nile, the prime minister said Friday.
Indonesia committed to the conservation of its dwindling tropical forests in a multimillion dollar debt-swap deal signed Tuesday with the American government, the U.S. Embassy said.
In a June 22 story about a federal forest thinning project, The Associated Press erroneously reported its name. It is the Hope Mountain Stewardship Project, not the House Hope Stewardship Project.
On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later.
Federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by developing plans for four national forests in California without adequately addressing the impact on endangered animals, a judge ruled.
Seven times, teenage hiker David Iredale used his cell phone to call Australia's equivalent of 911, pleading for rescue after he became lost in tough scrubland and ran out of water in 100-degree (37 C) heat.
The U.S. Forest Service will review and allow public comment on gas and oil drilling projects in the Allegheny National Forest under a settlement reached with environmental groups.
A 13-year-old boy who became disoriented during a map-reading exercise in a national forest was found safe Monday after spending the night alone in near-freezing temperatures.
Drugmaker Forest Laboratories Inc. offered kickbacks to doctors for prescribing its antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro and pushed the drugs for unapproved use on children, according to a complaint filed Wednesday by federal prosecutors.
A tiny middle school tucked in a snow-covered mountain valley ditched its decades-old coal-fired boilers for a wood pellet furnace, partly due to a beetle not much bigger than an eyelash.
Chas McFarland had 20 points and 14 rebounds Friday night, and No. 10 Wake Forest overcame a lackluster performance in a 86-79 victory over Richmond.
Brazil's president has signed a decree aimed at recovering and protecting devastate rain forest along Brazil's Atlantic coast.
Much of the heat in a South Carolina congressional race comes from four years ago — a battle over what started as a controlled burn on the farm of Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Brown that spread to a national forest.
Riley Skinner's first interception in nine months was quickly followed by another, then another.
Years ago, no one thought twice about felling the rainforest around this village in West Africa.
Environmentalists are suing the U.S. Forest Service over what they say is an illegal dole: The agency's long-standing practice of subsidizing corn and soybean farming on a nature preserve in western Kentucky and Tennessee.
Made-in-the-shade urban forestry dollars about to be axedAnne S. Fege and Tershia d'Elgin highlight the importance of San Diego's threatened Urban Forester position - one that they say has saved the city millions and made their city a better place. from the article:
Dire future for our urban forestHow will our urban forests fare in the wake of global warming? This article outlines why watering trees is so important and possible solutions to impending droughts. The loss of Edmonton trees has been linked to a combination of drought and insect attacks.
How Well Do You Know Your Own Backyard? : Planet GreenThe importance of native species, a crucial component of a healthy urban forest. How well do you know your own backyard?
Volunteer spirit takes root in tree program | Richmond Times-DispatchRichmond, Virginia gets a makeover thanks to a group of dedicated stewards of the urban forest. In a great show of solidarity, the community got together to plant fresh life into a land that was recently struck by tragedy.
Big Profit From Nature ProtectionMoney invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. It says money ploughed into protecting wetlands, coral reefs and forests can bring a hundredfold return on capital.
So November is well and truly here. Late fall in southern Ohio sees the trees go bare pretty quickly, but this year conditions were nearly perfect for some stunning fall color. It seemed like it came and went so fast that if you blinked, you missed it.
Roy: "The heart of India is under attack" in state violence-backed corporate land grabShocking report by prize-winning Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy about the corporate land grab in India that has put millions of desperate people against the wall - "mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people"
Obama administration inches away from 'time out' for roadless forest loggingEnvironmental groups in May hailed the Obama administration's decision to effectively pause development in about 58 million acres of road-free federal forests. Any logging in those forests, about 2 million acres of which are in Oregon, would have to be approved by Agriculture Se …
Federal plan tries to balance economy, environment for western Oregon forestsPresident Barack Obama inherited a lot of problems: Afghanistan, health care, the economy. But in the Northwest, one of the most intractable issues any new administration faces is what to do with our wealth of federal forests.
I'm a city boy for sure, but I'll get myself to a stream or forest any time I can and Pennsylvania has its share. In my mind, fall and winter snow scenes are the best subjects.
Pine beetle epidemic is over: B.C. ministerThe mountain pine beetle epidemic is over, B.C. forests minister declared Monday. But it's not because the beetles have been defeated. Rather, they have run out of trees, and that heralds a whole new set of problems, Pat Bell told the Vancouver Board of Trade.
An Ecosystem In Turmoil Puts Predators At RiskWhen the team of scientists returned from the dripping, primordial rain forest on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, they carefully prepared their specimens, drying, then grinding to a fine powder samples of tree trunks, plant leaves, soil, flies and beetles. There, in the …
Sustainable, but Too Small?Rod Krimmer moves through the forest undergrowth with long, confident strides that make him seem perfectly at home here. Graceful, even, compared to my awkward gait. Clutching a camera in one hand, a notebook in the other, I clamber over a fallen trunk to catch up.
An extraordinarily CHEAP Green Bailout to stop Brazil, Guyana and other deforestation In the last year countries bailed out the financial system to the tune of several trillion dollars - bailing out our planet is far cheaper: between 2010 and 2015, $20bn dollars is enough to cut tropical rainforest loss by 25%.
Greenpeace: Indonesian Sinar Mas logging and palm oil company, "climate criminal"Greenpeace activists demanding a logging halt were attacked when they led a peaceful protest at the headquarters of Indonesia's largest logging and palm oil company, the Sinar Mas Group, in Jakarta today.
World's Last Great Forest Under Threat: New StudyThe world's last remaining "pristine" forest -- the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries -- is under increasing threat, a team of international researchers has found.
B.C. stumbling on forests and climate changeLess than six months before the global climate summit in Copenhagen, this summer is giving us another taste of climate change.
Mexican drug smugglers tied to California fireWildfire investigators in California are looking for marijuana growers tied to a Mexican drug cartel whom they suspect ignited a blaze that has charred more than 87,000 acres of a national forest.
Bark beetle epidemic reshapes debate on loggingHelena's city commission met last week to earnestly discuss something that three years ago would have been a sacrilege: logging Mount Helena city park. The mountain park, as iconic to the capital as the Rims are to Billings or the "M" to Missoula, is now streaked with ribbons of …
Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack sets a new agenda for the Forest ServiceAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave a major Forest Service policy speech in Seattle today.
Please continue to "walk" with me through a Pennsylvania mountain forest and alongside several of its streams. A. Mac
"Character" is defined as "the distinctive nature of something." Personality..."the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character."
New strategy to save forests: loggingStumps and slash piles are the tallest things on this forestland less than 30 miles from the Space Needle as the crow flies. Clear-cut two years ago, this is the sort of sight that not long ago would have riled most environmentalists.
Old growth forest experiment in Willapa HillsPerched on a dirt road between stands of densely packed hemlocks and cedars, Tom Kollasch points to one of the parcels he plans to have commercially thinned. "We're just waiting for timber prices to go back up," he says. Nothing unusual here.
Obama Administration Cancels Bush-Era Plan to Clearcut Oregon ForestsObama Administration Cancels Bush-Era Plan to Clearcut Oregon Forests Salmon, Clean Water, and Old-growth Forests Big Winners
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