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From the Arizona Star via Yahoo Daily News, by Tom Beal The Sonoran Desert is burning. It's not supposed to happen, and it could signal the transformation of our saguaro-dominated landscape into something that more closely resembles an African savannah as native plants that have developed no defense to fire die off.

From the New York Times via the Conservation Forest Portal, by Alan Colwell

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AMES, Iowa - The majority of Iowa farmers responding to an Iowa State University survey said the basic directions of the 2002 Farm Bill should be continued, the income protection it offers is adequate and overall, the program has been successful.

From the Associated Press via Newsday, By Edith M. Lederer UNITED NATIONS --The U.N. environment chief has a message for leaders of the world's major industrialized nations: scientists have shown that it pays to preserve forests, coastal waters and marshes.

BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT Video Monitoring Services of America, Inc. (FAX) Date July 05, 2005 Time 07:00 AM - 08:00 AM Station ABC Location Network Program Good Morning America ROBIN ROBERTS, co-anchor:

From the Associated Press via CNN.com On the site of a former hat factory in Danbury, Connecticut, a stand of genetically altered cottonwood trees sucks mercury from the contaminated soil. Across the continent in California, researchers use transgenic Indian mustard plants to soak up dangerously high selenium deposits caused by irrigation of the nation's bread basket.