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10/31/01 -- Subsidiary COP7 bodies begin talks on forest industry

10/29/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #51

10/29/01 -- Kyoto Protocol talks: the main issues

10/26/01 -- World Bank: Natural resource losses a key factor in global poverty

10/26/01 -- Sustainable agriculture is a learning process

10/26/01 -- Did Humans Cause Extinctions? Archaeologist Says No

10/25/01 -- Blame North America Megafauna Extinction On Climate Change, Not Human Ancestors

10/23/01 -- Put the planet on a war footing

10/23/01 -- New mathematical model predicts conservation's success

10/23/01 -- Harry Potter wizardry saving ancient forests

10/23/01 -- Boreal News Update October 2001

10/22/01 -- Latin Officials: Green Issues Eclipsed by Attacks

10/22/01 -- Latam and Caribbean Prepare for Rio+10 Summit

10/22/01 -- Group Warns of Threatening Species

10/22/01 -- 12,000 students pledge to boycott citigroup credit cards

10/22/01 -- Forests: Study Compares Competing Certification Programs

10/20/01 -- Environment Ministers to Meet

10/19/01 -- Global wake-up call for stronger commitment to sustainable development

10/19/01 -- Wildlife corridors give species breathing room

10/19/01 -- Do Windmills Eat Birds

10/19/01 -- Deforestation Far Away Hurts Rain Forests, Study Says

10/18/01 -- Human actions 'worsen natural disasters'

10/17/01 -- Is population control part of the solution?

10/16/01 -- Researchers discover farming methods ineffective in improving biodiversity

10/16/01 -- Green Backlash Feared from World Slowdown

10/15/01 -- Invading Ants Disrupt Ecosystem

10/15/01 -- Influx of Foreign Plants, Animals is Called Growing Environmental Threat

10/12/01 -- Gradual change can push ecosystems into collapse

10/12/01 -- Accumulated Change Courts Ecosystem Catastrophe

10/11/01 -- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear - A post-Sept. 11 manifesto for environmentalists

10/11/01 -- Invading Ants Alter Regional Ecosystems

10/10/01 -- Studies find no end to sprawl

10/10/01 -- One more 'push' may crash some ecosystems

10/10/01 -- Accumulated Change Courts Ecosystem Catastrophe

10/08/01 -- US plants could be harmed by warmer climate - study

10/08/01 -- Tropical Forests Falling Across Africa, South America

10/08/01 -- Saving the planet after September 11

10/05/01 -- Warming may endanger native plant, 'U' finds

10/05/01 -- Forests: World Still Seeing Net Loss -- U.N.

10/04/01 -- UN report says tropical forests still shrinking

10/04/01 -- Tropical Countries Continue to Lose Forests at High Rate: FAO Report

10/04/01 -- Could plants be harmed by climate change?

10/04/01 -- "Skeptical Environmentalist" Unleashes Storm

10/03/01 -- Scientists Successfully Clone an Endangered Mammal

10/03/01 -- Forests rapidly disappearing in tropics but growing in Europe: UN agency

10/02/01 -- Prevent soil erosion by less ploughing, FAO urges

10/02/01 -- Saving the world's islands

10/01/01 -- Red Pigment In Fall Foliage Acts As Sunscreen: Theory

10/01/01 -- Mad cow-like disease spreads rapidly in wild deer

10/01/01 -- Against All Odds, Indian Tigers Bounce Back

09/30/01 -- UN meeting to try to revive fight against advancing deserts

09/29/01 -- UNESCO Expands Network of Biosphere Reserves

09/28/01 -- Nature reserves too small to protect species

09/27/01 -- Humans drive evolutionary change

09/26/01 -- Rich Nations Reject "Global Deal" on Development

09/26/01 -- Arboreal assassins

09/25/01 -- Vegetation Increasing At 40-70 Degrees North Latitude

09/25/01 -- UNEP Great Apes Project Receives Major Support

09/25/01 -- Sustainable building materials come of age

09/24/01 -- Alien Invasion: Exotic Species Sow Destruction Across the Atlantic

09/21/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #50

09/21/01 -- UN Environment Chief: Fight Root Causes Of Terrorism

09/21/01 -- Squirrels 'genetically altered' by forest

09/21/01 -- Can We Defy Natures End?

09/21/01 -- Bridging "Islands" of Wilderness a Boon to Animals

09/18/01 -- Healing properties found in fruit of roadside shrub

09/18/01 -- Biodiversity shrinks as farm breeds die out

09/17/01 -- World lacks will to conquer hunger, UN says

09/14/01 -- Scientists fear new threat to butterflies from Bt corn

09/14/01 -- Deadwood brings new life

09/13/01 -- Winter gets a little greener up north

09/12/01 -- Northern Latitudes Getting Greener with Warmer Temperatures

09/12/01 -- Human resistance to antibiotics worries WHO

09/11/01 -- Certification used to protect forests

09/10/01 -- WWF Maps Ambitious Arctic Conservation Plan

09/07/01 -- Report: Fighting mutant super bugs costs billions

09/07/01 -- WWF Leaders Urge Quick Action to Save the Arctic

09/07/01 -- WWF Leaders Join Forces to Combat Threats Against the Arctic

09/07/01 -- Majority of life diversity yet to be discovered

09/07/01 -- Bugs Fighting Back in Evolutionary War on Humans?

09/07/01 -- Animals use techniques to survive forest fires and predation

09/06/01 -- Humans a Major Evolutionary Force

09/05/01 -- Satellites show greening planet

09/05/01 -- Northern Hemisphere Getting Greener

09/05/01 -- Forest Fire Smoke Poses Mercury Danger

09/05/01 -- A valuable lesson from fish and forests: Destroying traditional cultures in pursuit of economic ideals does more harm than good

09/04/01 -- Satellites see a greener Earth

09/04/01 -- Alien Species Often Fit In Fine, Some Scientists Contend

09/03/01 -- Nature gets religion

09/02/01 -- Human Population Growth Harming Environment

08/31/01 -- Vegetation Responds More to Climate Change Than Carbon Dioxide Fluctuations

08/31/01 -- Environmentalist campaign targets global hotspots

08/31/01 -- Burning virtual trees to save forests

08/30/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #49

08/30/01 -- Scientists Develop 'Green' Hydrogen Production Technique

08/30/01 -- Insects May Need Refuges from Biotechnology

08/30/01 -- Asteroid Caused Earth's Largest Mass Extinction

08/28/01 -- Manmade Noise Has Impact on Natural Habitat

08/27/01 -- GM trees fight Dutch elm disease

08/24/01 -- Dying species 'endangering' earth

08/23/01 -- The quest for certifiably eco-friendly lumber

08/23/01 -- Leakey Warns of Mass Extinctions

08/23/01 -- Bjorn Lomborg's wonderful world

08/23/01 -- The quest for certifiably eco-friendly lumber

08/23/01 -- Private parks are springing up all around the world

08/23/01 -- Fungal enemy could explain worldwide amphibian die-off

08/23/01 -- Fifteen countries vital to forest conservation

08/22/01 -- Refocus forest efforts: UN study

08/21/01 -- Warning over disappearing forests

08/21/01 -- U.N.: Forest conservation efforts should concentrate on just 15 countries

08/21/01 -- U.N. Outlines Forest Conservation

08/21/01 -- State of the Planet's Forest Cover Revealed by Satellite

08/21/01 -- Satellites reveal loss of world's forest

08/21/01 -- Satellite data used to protect forests

08/21/01 -- Rainforest soaks just buying time

08/21/01 -- New Greenpeace Chief Says Bush Risking Earth's Future

08/20/01  -- UN call to save key forests

08/20/01 -- UN report warns that forests are likely to disappear unless attitudes change

08/20/01 -- U.N. call to save world's most important forests

08/20/01 -- Five minute briefing: world forests

08/20/01 -- Fifteen Countries Hold Key to Saving Forests

08/20/01 -- Eliminating Phosphorus Doesn't Harm Growth Of Forage

08/20/01 -- Arguments that don't hold water

08/17/01 -- Study shows perils of importing nonnative species

08/17/01 -- Habitat fragmentation decreases plants' ability to take up nitrogen

08/17/01 -- Activists Learn the Art of Protesting

08/16/01 -- Roundup Ready Soybeans Contain Unidentified DNA

08/16/01 -- Driven to extinction: a specious theory

08/16/01 -- Communicating science to the masses: A conversation with Donald Kennedy

08/15/01 -- Life from space dust?

08/14/01 -- Studying Impact Of Tree Plantations On Water Supply

08/14/01 -- Researchers Turn Back the Clock on Origin of Land Plants

08/10/01 -- Study finds much older origin of first land plants

08/10/01 -- Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting

08/10/01 -- Plausible Biological Cause For Major Climate Events

08/10/01 -- Did Plants Cool the Earth and Spark Explosion of Life?

08/10/01 -- Crunch time in the rainforest

08/10/01 -- Bird Extinctions May Hold Clues to Human Survival, Author Says

08/09/01 -- UN day for indigenous peoples: New Survival report names world's most vulnerable tribes

08/09/01 -- Together at Last: Cutting Pollution and Making Money

08/09/01 -- Weeds 'can inherit long-lived genes'

08/09/01 -- Rainforests Are Also A Pandora's Box Of Diseases?

08/09/01 -- Plants have been here much longer than previously thought

08/09/01 -- First fungi and plants may have colonized Earth nearly twice as long ago as previously thought

08/09/01 -- Earth story: Plants arrived early

08/08/01 -- Human Cloning Inevitable, National Panel Told

08/08/01 -- Ecologists Share Findings on Every Subject Under the Sun

08/08/01 -- Buried Irrigation Reduces Farm Runoff, Saving Trees

08/07/01 -- Celebrating Vanished Birds, Comical or Exquisite

08/07/01 -- Bjorn Lomborg: A Chipper Environmentalist

08/06/01 -- Forecast Sees Halt to Population Growth by End of Century

08/04/01 -- Nasa begins global 3D map release

08/02/01 -- World population set to peak at 9 billion

08/02/01 -- World numbers 'may peak by 2100'

08/02/01 -- Creating a wildlife sanctuary in your own back yard

08/01/01 -- Top U.N. official calls for Kyoto-style accord on deforestation, biodiversity

08/01/01 -- Scientists claim evidence of life in outer space

07/31/01 -- Hidden Cameras Capture World of the Rare and Wild

07/29/01 -- Emissions Treaty Softens Kyoto Targets

07/28/01 -- Human Population Growth Harming Environment

07/27/01 -- Tourist threat to Arctic

07/27/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #48

07/27/01 -- Lack of Sex Life Threatens Banana Crops

07/26/01 -- Study: Damage to Earth Began Long Ago

07/26/01 -- Carbon sinks not a good option; Not enough forest cover forviability

07/25/01 -- US EPA's Whitman likes part of global warming treaty

07/25/01 -- Passion for consumption could cost us the earth

07/25/01 -- International Business And Environmental Leaders Convene to Explore Markets

07/24/01 -- Scientists say gene-altered trees are promise for the future

07/24/01 -- Scientists Call for Development of Ecological Forecasting

07/24/01 -- Planting the wrong tree increases air pollution

07/24/01 -- International Plant Smugglers Weeded Out

07/24/01 -- Forests may increase greenhouse gases: Study

07/24/01 -- Fed: Kyoto deal could harm forests, says Native Forest Network

07/23/01 -- Bonn Climate Deal May Not Bring Down Emissions

07/23/01 -- Antiglobalization Activists Are Shifting Focus toMultinational Corporations

07/21/01 -- Plants Provide Many Uses Around the World

07/20/01 -- Trees are crunch issue at Bonn Climate talks

07/20/01 -- Talks stall over the use of forestry to combat pollution

07/20/01 -- Rift over 'sinks' at climate talks

07/20/01 -- Old hurdle bedevils climate conference

07/20/01 -- Ministers try to see Kyoto through the trees

07/20/01 -- Kyoto Talks Stall in Dispute Over Carbon 'Sinks"

07/20/01 -- Climate talks at risk over 'sinks'

07/19/01 -- EU rejects joint proposal on forest absorption

07/19/01 -- World Bank Incorporates Environmental Concerns into Lending Programs

07/19/01 -- World Bank adopts new, sounder environmental strategy

07/19/01 -- Carbon-sink proposal draws opposition

07/18/01 -- Tree alterations hurt environment

07/18/01 -- Japan to submit easier greenhouse-gas proposal

07/18/01 -- Banana targeted by code crackers

07/17/01 -- Japan, Canada, Australia want wider forest absorption

07/17/01 -- Japan, Canada, Australia want forest absorption cap nullified

07/17/01 -- Japan, 2 Others Make New Proposal on Carbon Sinks

07/15/01 -- Free Shade Trees Help Save Energy

07/13/01 -- Soil Suggests Early Humans Lived In Forests Instead Of Grasslands

07/13/01 -- Math theory predicts fire, disease spread

07/12/01 -- Is Land Use Even More Important Than Global Warming?

07/11/01 -- World Land Database Charts Course of Human Consumption

07/11/01 -- Growing Population Stamps Heavy Ecological Footprint

07/10/01 -- Green groups blocking help for poor nations - UN

07/09/01 -- Vegetation 'No Substitute for Cuts in Global Warming Emissions'

07/09/01 -- Carbon sinks unreliable for global warming curbs: report

07/09/01 -- Carbon sinks are 'a short-term fix'

07/09/01 -- Carbon sink plans criticised by Royal Society

07/09/01 -- UN Agencies Call for Safety Testing of Biotech Foods

07/09/01 -- Carbon sinks won't solve global warming - report

07/09/01 -- Carbon sinks are 'a short-term fix'

07/08/01 -- Carbon sinks 'little help to climate'

07/05/01 -- Not Just a Nice Idea, Preserving Biodiversity Is a Necessity

07/03/01 -- Saving Crop Diversity Key to Winning War on Hunger

07/03/01 -- Countries To Protect Crop Diversity

07/02/01 -- U.N.: Countries Reach Pact to Preserve Crop Diversity

07/02/01 -- U.N. Group Takes Half a Step Toward Biodiversity

07/01/01 -- U.N. Reaches Key Agreement to Save Crop Diversity

06/29/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #47

06/27/01 -- US environmentalists stir tempest in coffee pot

06/27/01 -- U.S. gene-altered crops rejected overseas

06/27/01 -- Seed patents needed to boost research-industry

06/27/01 -- How Trees Changed The World

06/27/01 -- Forum on Forests concludes first-ever session, outlining five-year work schedule, framework for plan of action

06/26/01 -- Peaceful protests mark biotech show

06/26/01 -- Green groups say seed patents menace food security

06/25/01 -- In Your Face, Out of Our Genes: the Battle of San Diego

06/25/01 -- World food 'under threat'

06/25/01 -- UN to seek agreement on access to seed banks

06/22/01 -- Spread of Farming May Have Given Rise to the Biggest Killer in Human History

06/22/01 -- Malaria: The Bug That Changed Genes

06/21/01 -- Study Cites Carbon Dioxide's 'Sink'

06/21/01 -- Studies Measure Capacity of "Carbon Sinks"

06/21/01 -- Environment, famine and war the world's main problems: UN poll

06/19/01 -- The Web as Dictator of Scientific Fashion

06/19/01 -- Spacecraft's Supercamera Captures Earth in All Its Detail

06/18/01 -- Shift from forest to crops lowers temperatures

06/18/01 -- Scientists See Wood Supply in Genetically Engineered Trees; Environmentalists Object

06/18/01 -- PBS documentary gauges human toll on environment

06/17/01 -- Cancer: Is This Drug the Cure?

06/17/01 -- Seafood Farms Spawn Controversy

06/17/01 -- Action urged to halt desert sands

06/17/01 -- A fiscal approach to saving the rainforests

06/15/01 -- Political Will to Stop Spreading Deserts is Missing

06/15/01 -- FAO warns against desertification

06/14/01 -- The good Earth: Growing an organic garden

06/14/01 -- Prehistoric humans blamed for mass extinctions

06/13/01 -- UN Group Publishes Two Publications on World Resources and Sustainable Development

06/12/01 -- UN United Nations Forum on Forests begins deliberations

06/12/01 -- Clues to Mammals' Early Ancestor Emerge From Age of the Dinosaurs

06/11/01 -- Conservation International and Ford Motor Company Join Forces To Create the Center For Environmental Leadership in Business

06/11/01 -- Biotech Crops Moving Fast Around Globe

06/1/01 -- Around the Globe, Cities Have Growing Pains

06/04/01 -- Kyoto's Global Warming Controls Could Harm Forests

06/09/01 -- Nations Vow to Fight Urban Blight

06/08/01 -- Urban Biodiversity Paper Issued by UN Ecosystem Group

06/08/01 -- Lax laws endanger survival of parrots - magazine

06/08/01 -- International Trafficker in World's Rarest Reptiles Jailed

06/08/01 -- Human Hunters Spelled Doom for Ice Age Behemoths

06/08/01 -- Global ecosystem study launched on World Environment Day

06/07/01 -- UN starts four-year checkup of world environment

06/07/01 -- Studies find human hunters drove many large animals to extinction

06/07/01 -- New evidence in extinction whodunnit

06/07/01 -- Natural directions: green maps for the environment

06/07/01 -- Humans Linked to Animal Extinction

06/07/01 -- Ancient "Chewing" Reptile Linked With Leap in Animal Diversity

06/07/01 -- Acid Rain Problem Isn't Solved, Just Put On Hold

06/06/01 -- Scientists join forces to map world's ecosystems

06/06/01 -- 'The Botany of Desire': How Grasses Use People to Fight Trees

06/05/01 -- United Nations Launches Extensive Study of Earth's Ecosystems

06/05/01 -- Turner's U.N. Fund Plans World Resource Survey

06/05/01 -- Timber group urges campaign to push demand

06/05/01 -- State of the Earth study launched

06/05/01 -- Scientists join forces to check Earth's health

06/05/01 -- Planet Earth's Health to Be Studied

06/04/01 -- World's Sprawling Cities Unmanageable, UN Habitat Warns

06/04/01 -- UN food agency warns of increasing malnutrition among urban poor

06/04/01 -- Songbird habitat conserved by sustainable coffee movement

06/04/01 -- Moderate logging benefits some rare forest plants, conservation study shows

06/04/01 -- Free-Market Environmentalists Gaining Stature

06/04/01 -- Alter Genes, Risk an Ecosystem?

06/03/01 -- UN to map Earth's health on World Environment Day

06/01/01 -- Dismissal of Snowmobile Suit Paves Way for Legal Change

06/01/01 -- Sound science a good basis for political policy

05/31/01 -- Despite Predictions, Viagra Hasn't Stemmed Trade in Threatened Wildlife

05/31/01 -- Dealing with Fragility - semi-arid areas and man

05/31/01 -- Consuming more, enjoying it less: 49 new trends

05/31/01 -- Eco Wars Not to Be Condoned, But Studied

05/30/01 -- Kyoto's Global Warming Controls Could Harm Forests

05/30/01 -- Cold War Replaced by Eco War

05/30/01 -- Timber group urges help for poor tropical states

05/30/01 -- Leading Conservation Groups Release Guidelines for Growing Earth-Friendly Coffee

05/29/01 -- Keeping Loggers on the Straight and Narrow

05/29/01 -- Fragmentation may limit songbird sex lives

05/26/01 -- Role of Trees in Curbing Greenhouse Gases Challenged

05/26/01 -- Large firms dominate logging trade

05/25/01 -- Trees won't save Bush

05/25/01 -- International aid needed to protect environment in developing nations

05/24/01 -- The Enemies of Democracy

05/24/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #46: What we would like to see at UNFF

05/24/01 -- Lifestyles Improving Around World

05/24/01 -- 21st century will transform world population

05/24/01 -- Tree-planting no defence against global warming: studies

05/23/01 -- Trees may not slow global warming

05/23/01 -- Raiding the Rain Forest: Global Treasure Faces New Threat

05/23/01 -- Carbon sinks 'may not help much'

05/22/01 -- Conference focuses on the human side of biodiversity

05/22/01 -- CLIMATE: Early Birds and Worms

05/22/01 -- Business, Industry Asked to Help Save Vanishing Great Apes

05/22/01 -- Alien species 'cause havoc'

05/21/01 -- U.N. Says Major Initiative Needed to Save Great Apes

05/21/01 -- Risk of GM animals is worth it, say scientists

05/21/01 -- Mischievous Species Capitalize on Globalization

05/21/01 -- Last chance to save great apes from extinction

05/21/01 -- GM meat '10 years away'

05/19/01 -- The biological goldrush

05/17/01 -- Environmentalists Target Large Tree-Killing Enterprise: Magazine Publishing

05/17/01 -- Feed the world's hungry while protecting wildlife

05/17/01 -- Agriculture, Biodiversity Protection Must Co-Exist in Conservation, Study Says

05/16/01 -- GM trials row intensifies

05/15/01 -- The Green Revolution Yields to the Bottom Line

05/14/01 -- Evolution is in Our Hands

05/14/01 -- Ecologist Says Unsustainable Food Should Be Taxed

05/14/01 -- Alien Species: Common, Costly and Destructive

05/12/01 -- Corruption Ruins Ability to Protect Environment

05/12/01 -- Alien Species Affect Ecosystems

05/11/01 -- Scientists Say 'Aliens' Cost World Economy Dear

05/11/01 -- Extinction was blink of geological eye

05/11/01 -- Eco-agriculture: stewardship of the land

05/10/01 -- Indigenous Leaders Lambast World Bank, IMF

05/10/01 -- OECD ministers forum to focus on sustainable growth

05/10/01 -- Ministers of rich nations head to Paris for environment talks

05/10/01 -- Biodiversity: buffer against climate change

05/10/01 -- Agriculture eats away at biodiversity

05/09/01 -- Climate changes linked to land use

05/09/01 -- Report: Reserves Must Be Integrated

05/09/01 -- Hungry People vs. Rare Wildlife: A Call for New Farming Methods

05/09/01 -- Farms plowing over world's nature reserves

05/09/01 -- Farmers can have good crops while still protecting wildlife

05/08/01 -- Creating a Modern Ark of Genetic Samples

05/08/01 -- World's Nature Reserves Severely Threatened

05/07/01 -- UN Explores Ethical Issues of Bioengineered Organisms

05/06/01 -- Airline boycott of legal trade in wildlife called damaging

05/05/01 -- Biodiversity Endgame: Buy Conservation of Endangered Ecosystems

05/04/01 -- U.N. body examines genetic resources, traditional knowledge

05/01/01 -- Funding pledges to protect environment key to Rio+10

05/01/01 -- Disappointment colors Earth Summit

04/28/01 -- Science Matters: organic farming is a growing field

04/28/01 -- Modern agriculture goes organic

04/28/01 -- Conservation group taps local expertise to protect wildlife

04/27/01 -- Do asteroids contain seeds of life?

04/26/01 --  World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #45

04/26/01 -- Scientists threaten journal protest

04/23/01 -- Organic farming profits land and growers

04/17/01 -- Conservationists Focus on Population Growth

04/16/01 -- Study of Plants Makes a Case for Biodiversity

04/16/01 -- Owls Use Multiplication in Locating Prey in the Dark, Study Shows

04/14/01 -- Biodiversity Gives Carbon Sinks a Boost

04/13/01 -- Earth is Hurt by Decrease in Plant Diversity, Study Says

04/12/01 -- Owls have 'surround sound'

04/12/01 -- Student protestors target Citigroup in 12 countries

04/11/01 -- Safety in numbers; Biodiversity is not just good for the soul- it could help save the planet from global warming too

04/11/01 -- Compromise bid to save climate treaty

04/10/01 -- U.N. climate report clarifies 'sinks'

04/09/01 -- Pioneers in Conservation Biology Share 200,000 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

04/06/01 -- Foot and mouth threatens rare species

04/06/01 -- Carbon dioxide boosts pine seed

04/05/01 -- Move for a global certification plan

04/05/01 -- Comets could have seeded life on Earth

04/03/01 -- In Age of DNA, Genetics Offer Conservationists New Hope

04/02/01 -- Nations Plan for Tourism That Shelters Biodiversity

04/02/01 -- Ford springs for forest certification

03/28/01 -- Ford Foundation Grants $5 Million To Leading Forest Certification Organization

03/28/01 -- Ancient tree rings give climate clues

03/27/01 -- Scientists Create Network to Help Park Managers Cope with Global Changes

03/27/01 -- Prescription: Look at a landscape and call me in the morning

03/26/01 -- World Livestock Crisis Gathers Momentum; Is U.S. Next?

03/26/01 -- Farm reform 'would reduce disease risk'

03/23/01 -- Exposure to nature may make people healthier

03/22/01 -- Weeds In Disturbed Areas May Be Source Of More Medically Important Compounds Than Plants In Tropical Rainforests

03/21/01 -- Experts Seeks Ways of Combating Desertification

03/19/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #44: Biodiversity, forests and people

03/19/01 -- Rapid Spread of Infections Puts Wildlife at Risk

03/16/01 -- Study: Plants fend off predators

03/16/01 -- Diseases wreak havoc on world farm trade

03/15/01 -- 10 Companies Control Fate of World's Forests: WWF

03/14/01 -- Primate roots of red-green vision

03/14/01 -- World's Forests Depend Upon Just Ten Companies

03/14/01 -- Foot-and-mouth threat spreads international panic

03/14/01 -- Farming practices in rich countries damage the environment -OECD study

03/13/01 -- Groups challenge UN agency findings on deforestation rates

03/13/01 -- FAO warns of "bushmeat" crisis caused by hunting

03/12/01 -- FAO warns against excessive hunting of wild animals for food

03/12/01 -- Ecological Decline, Industrial Farming and Livestock Borne Disease

03/12/01 -- Allegations That New Deforestation Estimates Are Flawed

03/10/01 -- Economics can join ecology to save the planet, conservationist says

03/08/01 -- High Alert Called on Trafficking in Wild Species

03/07/01 -- FAO says organic farming can reduce hunger

03/06/01 -- Earth Must Support 77 Million New People Each Year

03/01/01 -- Saving the leftovers

02/28/01 -- Developing nations' share of world population rising

02/27/01 -- Taiga Info: Boreal News Update

02/27/01 -- Scientists see evidence of life on Mars meteorite

02/27/01 -- Martian life debate intensifies

02/26/01 -- Slaughter Begins as Foot and Mouth Disease Hits UK

02/25/01 -- Effort to streamline many environmental conventions

02/24/01 -- Talks Fail to Defuse Forest Certification War

02/23/01 -- WWF Warns Key Forest Areas Threatened, But Seeks Inadequate Goals

02/23/01 -- Comet Tied To a Mass Extinction; Sediments Show Earth Was Hit, Scientists Say

02/23/01 -- Asteroid 'destroyed life 250m years ago'

02/23/01 -- 58 pct of Americans favor biofood labels - industry survey

02/22/01 -- Scientists map biological changes in earth's tropical forests

02/21/01 -- NGOs take to tools of globalisation to mobilise resistance

02/20/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #43

02/17/01 -- Health risks from crowded Earth

02/17/01 -- Agro-forestry could reduce global warming, experts say

02/15/01 -- Streamlining Wildlife Treaties Could Save Millions of $$$

02/15/01 -- Satellite Mapping Finds Soil Damage

02/14/01 -- Environmental Damage Threatens World Food Production

02/14/01 -- Study Finds Widespread Soil Damage

02/14/01 -- New Study Reveals that Environmental Damage Threatens Future World Food Production

02/14/01 -- Farming Methods Risk Global Food Production

02/12/01 -- UN green programme: An endangered species

02/10/01 -- UNEP Aims for Stronger Global Role

02/08/01 -- UN launches one-stop green website

02/08/01 -- Globalization Wiping Out Languages, Natural Links

02/07/01 -- WRM Special Bulletin on FSC certification of plantations

02/06/01 -- Touching Wild Plants May Change Their Future

02/06/01 -- Forests.org, Inc. Unveils Massive and Comprehensive Forest Conservation Links Site

02/05/01 -- World Bank Moves to Resume Funding of Commercial Logging

02/05/01 -- Restoration of Tropical Forests Gets Under Way But Scientists Still Have Lot to Learn

02/04/01 -- World losing forests at a lower rate, says UN agency

02/02/01 -- World Wetlands Day Features Good, Bad and Ugly

02/02/01 -- NASA tests infrared cameras to monitor greenhouse gases from forest fires

02/01/01 -- Lean times in the Antarctic

01/31/01 -- Global economy: shifting the balance of power

01/29/01 -- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #42

01/29/01 -- Mad Cow Disease Called International Threat

01/28/01 -- Man's germs wiped out mammoths: Disease can kill off whole species - including ours

01/26/01 -- New Primates Discovered in Madagascar and Brazil

01/24/01 -- UN Reports Global Deforestation Slowing Down

01/23/01 -- FAO says deforestation continues despite slowdown

01/22/01 -- U.N.: World's Forests Shrinking

01/22/01 -- Global Deforestation Drops: U.N. Report

01/22/01 -- Africa, South America fingered over loss of forests

01/18/01 -- Time running out on environment, report says

01/17/01 -- Wise use group targets RAN with attack website

01/15/01 -- Worldwatch report: Environmental movement losing steam

01/15/01 -- Political Will to Save Global Environment Falters

01/15/01 -- Global Environment Reaches "Dangerous Crossroads": Think Tank

01/14/01 -- New fears for planet's welfare

01/14/01 -- Global warming: world is getting cold feet

01/13/01 -- World Adopts U.S. Consumer Culture

01/13/01 -- Report Cites Ecological Decline

01/13/01 -- Certified Products

01/12/01 -- Ecosystem Declines & Need for Environmentally Friendly Energy

01/11/01 -- Modified monkey poses questions

01/09/01 -- Tropical Parks Need More Support

01/07/00 -- High-Tech Firms to Stop Using Old-Growth Forest Products

01/05/01 -- Scientists await birth of first cloned endangered species

01/05/01 -- Mapping biodiversity

01/05/01 -- Environment Losing Ground To Growing Population

01/04/01 -- Stop plundering earth-Canterbury Archbishop plea

01/03/01 -- Kenaf popular as nonwood alternative for paper

01/01/01 -- Scorched Earth in the Tropics Linked to Europe's Storms


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