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[TRENDING NEWS] Tree DNA Sends a Poacher to Prison in 2018 Maple Fire Case

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Author: BY VIMAL PATEL - Publish Date: November 11, 2021 at 12:24AM Loggers seeking a prized hardwood started the fire in the Olympic National Forest, prosecutors said. The use of timber DNA evidence was a first in a federal criminal trial.

[TRENDING NEWS] Sequoias Are Being Wrapped in Special Foil to Protect Them From Fires

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Author: BY CHRISTINE HAUSER - Publish Date: September 18, 2021 at 02:27AM At least two wildfire complexes are threatening some of the giant sequoia groves in Central California.

[TRENDING NEWS] A large wildfire in drought-seared Minnesota threatens homes and recreation sites.

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Author: BY JOHNNY DIAZ - Publish Date: August 27, 2021 at 12:47AM The Greenwood fire in the Superior National Forest has burned about 25,000 acres near the Canadian border since Aug. 15.

[TRENDING NEWS] Climate Change Comes for Rich Countries

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Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: July 21, 2021 at 11:33PM Brutal heat and deadly floods show a world unprepared to cope with extreme weather.

[TRENDING NEWS] Wildfires Are Intensifying. Here’s Why, and What Can Be Done.

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Author: BY WINSTON CHOI-SCHAGRIN - Publish Date: July 17, 2021 at 12:30AM The danger from flames and smoke is growing as blazes spread more swiftly and unpredictably as a consequence of climate change. Here are answers to five important questions.

[TRENDING NEWS] Tropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020

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Author: BY HENRY FOUNTAIN - Publish Date: March 31, 2021 at 11:01AM There were bright spots, but the total lost acreage increased by 12 percent over all from the year before, according to new research.

[TRENDING NEWS] Icy Podcasts to Warm Your Cold, Cold Heart

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Author: BY PHOEBE LETT - Publish Date: January 3, 2021 at 10:41AM A polar podcast playlist from cold places, full of nonfiction and fiction storytelling set in the snow.

[TRENDING NEWS] Trump Administration to Announce Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging

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Author: BY CORAL DAVENPORT - Publish Date: September 25, 2020 at 07:41AM The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years.

[TRENDING NEWS] As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a ‘Climate Arsonist’

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Author: BY PETER BAKER, LISA FRIEDMAN AND THOMAS KAPLAN - Publish Date: September 15, 2020 at 07:02AM The president visited California after weeks of silence on its wildfires and blamed the crisis only on poor forest management, not climate change. “I don’t think science knows” what is happening, he said.

[TRENDING NEWS] Enquanto Bolsonaro cumpre as promessas sobre a Amazônia, indígenas brasileiros temem um ‘etnocídio’

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Author: BY ERNESTO LONDOÑO AND LETÍCIA CASADO - Publish Date: April 19, 2020 at 02:10PM O presidente Jair Bolsonaro atua de forma agressiva para abrir a floresta amazônica ao desenvolvimento comercial e representa uma ameaça existencial para as tribos da região.

[TRENDING NEWS] Bolsonaro cumple sus promesas sobre la Amazonia y los indígenas de Brasil temen un ‘etnocidio’

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Author: BY ERNESTO LONDOÑO - Publish Date: April 19, 2020 at 02:10PM El presidente del país sudamericano está actuando de forma agresiva para abrir la selva amazónica al desarrollo comercial, lo que representa una amenaza existencial para los pueblos que la habitan.

[TRENDING NEWS] As Bolsonaro Keeps Amazon Vows, Brazil’s Indigenous Fear ‘Ethnocide’

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Author: BY ERNESTO LONDOÑO AND LETÍCIA CASADO - Publish Date: April 19, 2020 at 02:00PM President Jair Bolsonaro is moving aggressively to open up the Amazon rainforest to commercial development, posing an existential threat to the tribes living there.

[TRENDING NEWS] En busca de la palma de cera colombiana en peligro de extinción

Author: BY JENNIE ERIN SMITH AND FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR - Publish Date: November 6, 2019 at 06:51AM El árbol nacional de Colombia está en riesgo. Con el acuerdo de paz firmado entre el gobierno y las guerrillas de las Farc, los científicos están redescubriendo (y salvando) zonas antes prohibidas.

[TRENDING NEWS] What Satellite Imagery Tells Us About the Amazon Rain Forest Fires

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Author: K.K. REBECCA LAI, DENISE LU and BLACKI MIGLIOZZI - Publish Date: August 24, 2019 at 07:00AM Maps and images based on satellite data provide clues to how the fires started.

[TRENDING NEWS] Scorched Portugal Turns to the Goat as a Low-Cost Firefighter

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Author: RAPHAEL MINDER - Publish Date: August 17, 2019 at 07:00AM Portugal is using goats to clear the underbrush that fuels wildfires in hard to reach places and abandoned lands. If only it can find shepherds to tend them.

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up

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Author: ALANNA MITCHELL - Publish Date: May 20, 2019 at 07:00AM Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models.

[TRENDING NEWS] A Respite From Record Losses, but Tropical Forests Are Still in Trouble

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Author: HENRY FOUNTAIN - Publish Date: April 25, 2019 at 07:00AM Satellite data suggest 2018 wasn't as bad as the previous two years for tropical deforestation, but the overall trend of losing trees continues.

[TRENDING NEWS] Life and Death in an Ancient Polish Forest

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Author: MARC SANTORA and ANDREA MANTOVANI - Publish Date: April 9, 2019 at 07:00AM A European court stopped logging in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. But many still fear for its future.