Chain saws in hand, they trudged through the woods, slashing away at trees with no training. At night, they slept in ragged tents in bone-chilling cold. Up before dawn, they traveled to remote job sites in unsafe vans.
Five years ago, intense forest fires around this logging and tourist town burned more than 350,000 acres of forest. Today huge swaths of charred trees cover the mountainsides.
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai urged Kenya's government on Monday to do more to protect and rehabilitate indigenous forests, saying decades of deforestation had contributed to the current drought.
The Kenyan government says at least 2.5 million people in the east African nation are on the brink of starvation due to severe drought, crop failure and depletion of livestock herds.
Geoffrey Lean | The Independent | January 8, 2006
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Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn babies, startling new research suggests.
A real estate developer standing here would drool over the prospects.
Unspoiled hardwood forests covering rolling hills. Deer tracks running past a trout stream and a small, pristine lake. Popular Sugar and Pokegama lakes over the hill. And all just a few miles from Grand Rapids and its amenities.
Governor Tim Pawlenty today announced that Minnesota's state forest lands have achieved an economic and environmental milestone through certification as sustainable forests. This accomplishment follows through on a commitment made early in the Governor's term to achieve sustainable status on all state forest land.
Timber researchers hope to create wood sniffers that could track lumber from forest to front-room furniture the way bloodhounds track criminals -- by their scent.
