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WPTV continues to report on efforts to save a forest in Boynton Beach from becoming a housing development. Relentless advocacy, both online and in person, appears to have made moves. After WPTV's ...

Before the late ‘80s, most people didn’t really think about the rainforest; the concept of such a place hadn’t yet entered into the public consciousness. When people thought about dense, tropical ...

NORTH ADAMS — Grassroots group Save Notch Forest has gone from chanting outside City Hall to singing kumbaya with those inside. Save Notch vigorously and successfully opposed a plan to log around the ...

If you saw a plan that’s already cut down 200,000 trees, with millions more in the crosshairs, you might think it’s an environmental apocalypse in the making. However, this seemingly drastic approach ...

A delegation from Alianza Ceibo, Amazon Frontlines, representatives of other Amazonian nationalities, and activist Jane Fonda, on a tour about the damage caused by oil extraction in the Amazon.

A UC Davis field crew conducts forest inventory in the Emerald Point old-growth stand at Lake Tahoe. Ancient ponderosa pines that once grew in a open-canopied forest now confront waves of ...

Johnny Appleseed’s heart was in the right place when he walked all over the early United States planting fruit trees. Ecologically, though, he had room for improvement: To create truly dynamic ...

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