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The U.S. Forest Service has trapped the first wolverine ever captured and fitted with a radio collar in the Pacific Northwest. Biologists are hoping to learn more about the habits and range of the elusive creatures known for their ferocious nature.

The line of figures trudging along beside their firewood-laden bicycles stretches to the the horizon on this dusty Nepalese back road.

Through the stand of red pines, you come to the ledge that opens onto the nearly 180-degree vista of the Sable Highlands, stretching wide across the horizon and up into pale clouds.

New FAO data shows progress towards sustainable forest management at the global level, but also that biological diversity and forest ecosystems remain seriously threatened in several regions.

Keith Carabell parked his car beside a snow-covered woodlot hemmed in by townhouses, gas stations, a McDonald's, Kmart and other emblems of creeping suburbia on the northern fringe of metropolitan Detroit.

It's a dream ripe with possibility -- a process that takes waste and turns it into ethanol with no ecological impact. The byproducts in this closed system would instead generate electricity. No toxic fumes, no waste products to pass on and new jobs created -- it sounds like a science fiction utopia.

Dear Mr. Friedman,

Growing up in the Holly Park and High Point subsidized housing projects, Reco Bembry didn't know much about the ecology of urban greenbelts he and his friends inhabited. They ran around, built forts, dug for creepy-crawly bugs, invented games and assumed characters that allowed them to escape.