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NPR
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A team of scientists says it has found a string of vast, rich forests in an unexpected setting: far below the coral reefs found in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The new forests are made out of kelp plants that harbor a huge range of plants and animals. Like..
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BBC News
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Armies of insects once crawled through lush forests in a region of Greenland now covered by more than 2000m of ice.
DNA extracted from ice cores show that moths and butterflies were living in forests of spruce and pine in the area between 450,000 and 8..
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BBC News
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Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled.
The high resolution RALCam3 camera, designed and built by UK scientists, will provide the first detailed view of the..
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BBC News
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Data on tropical forest cover is so poor that we do not know if the forests are declining, a study has found.
Alan Grainger from the UK's University of Leeds examined UN analyses going back almost 30 years, and found that "evidence for a decline is unc..
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BBC News
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China's massive capacity to recycle waste-paper is preventing many forests around the world from being destroyed, a report has concluded.
The nation's paper industry imported almost 20 million tonnes in 2006, primarily from the US, Europe and Japan, ac..
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BBC News
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Planting trees in snowy areas may worsen global warming as their canopies absorb sunlight which would otherwise be reflected by the snow, a study says.
The report in US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says the pine forests of Eu..
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BBC News
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Australia is setting up a A$200m ($160m, �80m) fund to protect the world's forests, in a bid to tackle illegal logging and global warming.
The fund's main aims are to reduce deforestation and plant new forests.
PM John Howard said the idea would m..
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