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Forests are a crucial component of the world's ecology, providing a wealth of biological diversity. Although trees are the most visible component, within the woodland and forest biomes that cover about 30% of the world's ice-free land surface, there...

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. (West African) No forest without its bear. (Turkish) One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush. (African) Some men go through a forest and see no firewood....

In recent decades there have been observations of widespread declines in vigor and dieback of mature forests in many parts of the world. In many cases, pollution may be a factor contributing to forest decline, for example in regions where air quality...

FOREST (an acronym for "Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco") is a United Kingdom political pressure group that campaigns for the right of people to smoke tobacco and opposes attempts to ban or reduce tobacco consumption. FOREST...

Background The first forests, in the Carboniferous Period, consisted of giant horsetails and club mosses. By the start of the Jurassic Period, conifers had appeared and during the Tertiary Period broadleaf trees with flowers were common. Today, the world's forests are...

Karen Joy Fowler's new novel, The Sweetheart Season, is not a book for the unsophisticated, although it is about apparently commonplace people in a commonplace company town at a commonplace time. The year is 1947, the company makes breakfast cereals and continually hovers...

The Forest Service on Thursday proposed new rules for managing 193 million acres of national forests, responding to a court ruling that tossed out policies giving forest managers great discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects.The Forest Service said the new rules, to take...

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