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A panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO) handed down a decision Thursday favorable to Brazil in its dispute with the European Union (EU) over trade in chickens.

From the Taipei Times, By Chiu Yu-Tzu Forest management should take sustainability into account, in line with a trend in many other countries to value biodiversity conservation and native species restoration, forest researchers involved in government-sponsored projects said yesterday.

From the Duluth News Tribune As the St. Lawrence Seaway reopened Friday for the 2005 shipping season, environmentalists called for stricter regulations to cut off the flow of invasive species into the Great Lakes.

From the Pioneer Press, by Nancy Ngo hree years ago, large three-story homes started popping up past the dirt road that led to Aina Wiklund's one-story cottage in Rosemount. For many years, she, too, has received offers from developers to purchase her 25-acre property, but she has refused.

From the Associated Press via the News Sentinel, by John Heliprin WASHINGTON - The government will start keeping track of all the "greenhouse" gases that farmers and foresters voluntarily reduce to help combat global warming.

From Planet Ark, by David Cullen LONDON - The world's biggest study to date on the impact of genetically modified (GMO) crops on wildlife found birds and bees are more likely to thrive in fields of natural rapeseed than GMO seed, scientists said.

From the Duluth News Tribune, by Lee Bloomquist CHISHOLM - Ray Svatos doesn't have to spend a lot of green to make trees. For about 25 cents apiece, Svatos and the Iron Range Resources Mineland Reclamation staff grow red pine, white pine, white spruce and jack pine seedlings. Svatos says the big payoff will come down the road.

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