Rain forests fall at 'alarming' rate
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In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
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Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an important ecosystem, the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says.
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By JOHN RICHARDSON Staff Writer  Acid rain is still a threat to more than one-third of Maine's forestland, according to a new study presented Tuesday in Portland.
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For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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Within decades, the vast majority of the orangutans' Southeast Asian rain forest home will disappear unless action is taken now to curb rampant illegal logging, the UN says.
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Indonesia has put out most of the forest fires on its part of Borneo island after inducing rain with cloud seeding, minimizing the spread of a smoke haze that is threatening air quality in the country and its neighbors, the government said Tuesday.
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The idea of destroying a  swathe of rainforest, home to hundreds of rare species, to  clear land for a sugar plantation is an environmentalist's  worst nightmare.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Climate experts rank most fragile world regions and warn of collapse before end of century
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Science & environment: Project billed as future model for responsible mining in developing world threatens biodiversity and increasing poverty, conservationists say.
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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours  which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of  thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of  the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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Activists are concerned that conversion of the native hardwood forest to fast-growing pine is damaging crucial habitat for hundreds of plants and animals.
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Global biodiversity is shrinking at an unprecedented rate and the prognosis given by one of the world&#39;s leading conservation bodies, at the opening of a major environment conference here, is alarming.
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Blistering heat and hot dry winds have fanned the fires. Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were some of the worst on record, the European Commission has said. via Jackaranda