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NEW YORK - A spike in gasoline prices is fueling what could be the biggest year for US bicycle sales since the Arab oil embargo more than three decades ago, a leading bike association said on Wednesday.

Zimbabwe will soon start growing the oil-rich jatropha tree to manufacture its own blend of diesel as the country battles to overcome acute fuel shortages, state radio reported on Wednesday. The jatropha plant -- a small deciduous tree that can grow in arid areas -- has seeds rich in vegetable oil that can be burned as a substitute for diesel.

Georgia-Pacific Corp. will eliminate 850 jobs in North America -- mostly in Wisconsin -- and 250 in Europe as part of a restructuring.

As a rule, environmentalists and tree farmers rarely agree on much. However, during a tour of Rick Dunning's tree farm Wednesday, representatives of both groups looked beyond an old clearcut and spotted a threat to the environment more lasting than any single tree harvest a smattering of houses amid the otherwise green landscape.

VANCOUVER -- Myles Mana and other members of one of the most unusual law enforcement teams in the country have learned that often the best way to find a crime scene is to follow the drag marks. After all, when the victim is some 30 metres tall it is not easy to move the body without making a mess.

CRITICAL habitat supporting the so-called Strzelecki "super-koala" and endangered powerful owls is to be bulldozed as part of a controversial road-widening project in South Gippsland.

The Ojibwe tribal members here are paddling into the rice beds again this fall and harvesting wild rice, knocking it in traditional fashion from bending stalks into the bottoms of their canoes.

TORONTO -- Ontario's Liberal government unveiled a $330-million, five-year aid package for the troubled forestry sector Thursday that was immediately attacked as "too little, too late" by labour leaders, industry representatives and opposition critics.