• But there are global phenomena, such as forest fires, where the carbon-dioxide contributions are not fully understood.

    ECONOMIST: Two new satellites will monitor carbon dioxide emissions

  • There is every sense in helping nations share expensive assets to confront menaces such as forest fires.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Natural factors such as forest fires further affect air quality by emitting carbon monoxide and other gases that lead to the production of ozone.

    CNN: Canadian forest fires add to U.S. pollution

  • The different programmes are specifically created for the local communities in which they are located, in thematic fields such as "forest", "culture and environment", "local community and environment", "tourism and environment", "biodiversity", "soil" etc.

    UNESCO: Education For Sustainable Development - Cyprus

  • The likes of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Birds Eye Potato Waffles were being served up in homes across the UK. New frozen desserts also became popular, such as Black Forest Gateau, Wall's Viennetta and Birds Eye's Arctic Roll.

    BBC: The rise of the ready meal

  • Republicans accused Democrats of trying to stir up political trouble over the cuts, which they promised would not affect FEMA's ability to respond to natural disasters, in part, because the money is being diverted to other agencies -- such as the Forest Service -- to be spent on disaster response.

    CNN: House overwhelmingly passes supplemental spending bill

  • Early next morning before the park is overrun by weekend visitors, walk another nature trail with Vakale to learn about indigenous plant such as kadamba and flame of the forest, and bird species such as golden orioles and racket-tailed drongos.

    BBC: Mumbai��s urban jungle, after dark

  • Medicines such as Prozac and Forest's Celexa work only on serotonin.

    FORBES: With Drug Approval, Lilly Sighs Relief

  • To encourage this shift, they issued a raft of incentives for forest conservation, such as tax breaks for non-timber forest products like rubber, palm hearts and nuts.

    ECONOMIST: A lesson for others

  • Many of Cho's buildings are in South Korea, but some of his temporary structures, such as the "Air Forest" set up in Denver, U.S., in 2008 and "Ring Dome" seen in Milan and Yokohama, have made it abroad.

    CNN: Minsuk Cho's dramatic architecture

  • By contrast, in the short term it reckons that the votes of a few conservationists and well-to-do owners of second homes weigh lightly in the balance against those who have to make a living out in constituencies such as Stroud and the Forest of Dean.

    ECONOMIST: Clouds over the countryside | The

  • As sustainable development finance remains a critical concern for African economies, the African Development Bank has invested in a suite of creative financing and support instruments, such as the Congo Basin Forest Fund, ClimDev-Africa Fund, Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, African Water Facility, and Africa Carbon Support Program.

    CNN: Sponsors

  • We often take these services for granted, such as the ability of the forest to filter water or produce oxygen.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • And the intrepid value players are finding them in some of the most unlikely areas of the economy, such as farming and the struggling forest-products industry.

    FORBES: Valmont Industries And Weyerhaeuser: Enticing Value Plays on Irrigation And Timber

  • Delegates from some EU countries have suggested that others with large areas of forest - such as Austria, Finland and Sweden - are pushing for lax regulation, along with Russia and Australia.

    BBC: Rich countries accused of carbon 'cheating'

  • He suspended the use of prescribed burns by state agencies on state lands -- including state parks, refuges, State Land Board lands and any agency that manages lands -- or under contract on nonstate lands, such as by the Colorado State Forest Service.

    CNN: Family films frantic escape from Colorado wildfire

  • Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • But even that will require huge improvements in forest management, such as reforming land registries and tightening up law enforcement.

    ECONOMIST: Seeing the wood

  • But the long-term prospects for biomass are best with non-food based feedstocks such as switchgrass, wood chips and forest residues.

    FORBES: America's Best Places For Alternative Energy

  • The cabin-holders also contend that other users of the forest such as loggers, miners and people who use it for grazing animals get even better terms, acre for acre, than they do.

    ECONOMIST: Cabins in the wilderness

  • DoGoodBuyUs and CharityGiftMarket allow consumers to buy items such as a notebook made by New Forest Earth to prevent deforestation in Mexico and Equador, a rice bowl from Mai Handicrafts to benefit street families in Vietnam or a necklace made by FallingWhistles to promote peace in the Congo.

    FORBES: To Find Something Unique, Consumers Turn To Charity Brands

  • Successful forest regeneration requires actions such as maintaining seed trees, thinning harvested stands and more.

    ECONOMIST: Fact or fission

  • In India, most of the land required for factories and infrastructure projects such as highways is acquired from villagers and forest-dwelling tribes.

    WSJ: Land Bill Likely to Get Parliament Nod

  • In October, the state government began providing automatic weapons such as AK-47s to its Assam Forest Protection Force, a special armed unit.

    WSJ: Armed Guards, Drones to Protect India's Rhinos

  • Scientists studying such diverse phenomena as earthquakes, stockmarket crashes and forest fires have noticed, says Mr Buchanan, that their distributions all follow something called a power law.

    ECONOMIST: Megaphoneys

  • As well as destabilizing human communities, logging also threatens to decimate an ecosystem that is critical for the survival of wildlife including forest elephants and endangered apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.

    CNN: Logging decimates African rainforest

  • Irving (a Canadian conglomerate that is now the largest single landowner in Maine), intend to harvest the timber in the usual way, but others, such as Plum Creek Timber, will use the forest a bit differently.

    ECONOMIST: Forests

  • About the situation of water sources in the city, the actor reminded us that at zona Sul, where most foreign delegations are staying, there are serious environmental issues such as the occupation of hills once covered by native forest and the ejection of sewerage onto the beaches and some waterways.

    UNESCO: The Future is Green and Blue campaign mobilizes Rio+20 participants | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • The profits are invested in maintaining the abbey and surrounding forest, and used to hold events such as summer music concerts.

    BBC: Forgotten landscapes outside Krakow

  • These have included forest trees, trees in urban areas such as parks and gardens, and also young trees in nurseries.

    BBC: Survey in forest

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