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From the Duluth News Tribune, by Scott Thistle ST. PAUL -- Two experts with firsthand knowledge of the planet's warming warned state legislators Monday to heed signs of global climate change.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 21 - The European Union's chief trade negotiator, Peter Mandelson, urged the United States on Monday to reduce subsidies to its farmers and to address unsolved issues on the trade in services to avert a breakdown in global trade talks.

From Reuters via Planet Ark, by Maggie Fox Wetlands that once sheltered Marsh Arabs and a host of wildlife in southern Iraq are being partly restored and could offer a haven once again if it is done right, experts said on Saturday.

From the Associated Press via World Link, By Jeff Barnard GRANTS PASS - The U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior need to develop a long-term wildfire strategy that gives Congress a better idea how much money is really needed to thin forests and where the work is needed most, the Government Accountability Office said.

From Reuters via Planet Ark BRUSSELS - Insects in wood packaging that may emerge to destroy European forests are threatening $80 billion worth of trade between Europe and the United States, officials and diplomats said on Friday.

From the Seattle Post Intelligencer, by Kristin Dizon

From the Associated Press via Yahoo, by Michael Astor and Alan Clendenning ANAPU, Brazil - Three decades after settling in the remote rainforest to clear brush and grow cocoa under the shadows of towering jungle trees, Luis Domingues da Silva is starting to see the first hints that Brazil's booming agribusiness industry is heading his way.

From the Associated PRess via the Sacramento Bee, by Matthew Daly Environmentalists sued the Bush administration on Thursday over new rules for managing the 192 million acres of national forests. The rules issued in December give managers of the 155 national forests more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews.