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12/31/99--Watch What You Eat; Can Consumer Power Save the Planet?
12/29/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, #29
12/25/99--EPA Takes on Farm Runoff
12/25/99--Ten Tips to Help Heal the Planet
12/22/99--Tracking Forest Fires from Space
12/22/99--Book Snippet: 'The Trade Off Myth: Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the Environment"
12/22/99--Rainforest Action Network on Seattle - Blow by Blow
12/21/99--Method Found to Slow Plant Growth
12/20/99--Biotech Trees Rooted in Controversy; Engineering a Better Poplar has Advocates and Critics
12/20/99--A Review of the World Bank's 1991 Forest Policy and its Implementation
12/18/99--Pulp Nonfiction: Cleaning Up the World's Paper Trail
12/16/99--Scientists Decode First Plant Chromosomes
12/13/99--Group of Scientists Back Biotechnology Research
12/12/99--Seattle WTO Protesters Shun Consumption
12/12/99--Protected Forests in Jeopardy, World Bank-WWF Study Finds
12/12/99--Environment Tops Kids' List of Concerns
12/9/99--Forests Come Out on Top After 'Battle in Seattle'
12/9/99--UNESCO Lists 48 New World Heritage Sites
12/8/99--Clinton Admin Faces Challenge Over Environmental Reps in Timber Meetings
12/6/99--11 Natural World Heritage Sites Added to UN's List
12/6/99--New Book Debunks Belief in "Sustainable Use" of Nature
12/5/99--"Paper Parks" Illustrate Magnitude of Threat to World's Forests
12/4/99--Protesters Claim WTO Failure as Victory
12/3/99--Parks, Refuges Poorly Managed in Many Developing Countries
12/3/99--Protected Forests Poorly Managed, Joint Report Says
12/3/99--Chaos Surrounding WTO Reflects Public Mistrust, Media Reports
12/3/99--UN Adds 11 Natural Areas to World Heritage List
12/2/99--Clinton Says WTO Trade Talks Not Easy
12/2/99--Update on Genetically Engineered Foods and the WTO
12/2/99--Hawaiian Forests Could Combat Climate Change
12/2/99--Trojan Gene Spurs Extinction Warning
12/2/99--WTO Needs to Give Up its Secrecy
12/1/99--Indigenous Peoples' Seattle Declaration
12/1/99--WTO Members Begin Undermining Environmental Agreement
12/1/99--Indigenous Peoples Protest WTO Policies in Seattle
12/1/99--Sustainable Forestry Helps Reap Bigger Profits
12/1/99--Eco-Friendly Forest Stocks Pay for Investors, Study Says
12/1/99--One GM Fish Let Loose Can Wipe Out Wild Populations
12/1/99--Loggers' Suit Alleges Ecological 'Religion'
11/30/99--WTO Controversy Over Forest Tariffs, and Other Environmental and Social Concerns
11/30/99--Pondering Next Rung on the Evolutionary Ladder
11/30/99--WTO in Seattle: Fewer Timber Tariffs, Fewer Forests, Activists Warn
11/30/99-- A Romance with a Rainforest's Miracles
11/29/99-- WTO is Dangerous, Says Activists
11/29/99-- WTO Opponents Unfurl Five-Story Banner in Downtown Seattle
11/29/99-- 150 States Vow Stronger Anti-Desertification Drive
11/29/99--WTO Disregards Environment, Settles for Corporate Interests
11/28/99-- World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 28 November 1999
11/26/99--WTO Logging Agreement Threatens Forests & Environment
11/26/99-- Gradualist Steps for Anti-Desertification Fight
11/25/99-- A Close Look at the Certification of the Forest Industry
11/25/99-- What the Kyoto Protocol Agreement Means for Tropical Conservation
11/23/99-- Ecotones Play Large Role in New Species Evolution
11/23/99-- Forest Edges Critical to Evolution of Species
11/23/99-- Rainforest Lizards Yield Clues to Diversity
11/22/99-- Certified Environmentally Friendly Lumber Now in Local Stores
11/22/99-- Conflict over Certification Programs in Portland, OR
11/22/99-- Genetic Patenting Row Looms Over WTO Talks
11/19/99-- U.S. Extends List for Global Protection
11/18/99-- Evergreens Touted as a Pesticide Buffer
11/16/99-- Science Journals to Link up on Internet
11/16/99-- Seeds Suffer in Rainforest Fragments
11/12/99-- Commonwealth Business Wants WTO to Stick to Trade
11/12/99-- Industry-backed Sustainable Forest Certification Attacked
11/11/99-- Green Group Warns on GM Tree Development
11/11/99--Expanding the Market for Environmentally Preferable Paper
11/11/99--FrankenTrees: The Dangers of Genetically Modified Trees
11/9/99-- WWF Exposes GM Tree Threat to World's Forests
11/8/99-- Questioning Official Environmentalism
11/4/99--U.S. Says Trade Plan Won't Hurt Forests
11/4/99--World-Wide Wave of Opposition to Clinton Administration WTO Forest Plan
11/3/99--Clinton's Forest Products Trade Report Blasted
11/2/99--Eco-Worries Undercut Tropical Timber Market
11/2/99--Nov. 4: Worldwide Day of Protest Against WTO
11/1/99-- GM Technology in the Forest Sector: A Scoping Study for WWF
10/31/99--WWF Program Pushes for Concerted Effort When Tackling Earth's Environmental Problems
10/29/99--Anti-WTO Activists Denied U.S. Entry by Clinton Administration
10/29/99--Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Workshop Held in DC
10/29/99--Labor, Enviros Want Hearing at WTO Meeting
10/28/99--Activists Call for Tighter Import Restrictions to Halt Invading Plant, Animal Species
10/28/99--Nov. 4: Protest the WTO in Front of Boise Cascade in Medford, Oregon
10/26/99--European Satellite Technology Helps Fight Forest Fires
10/26/99--Soil-Saving Farming Takes Root in Tropics
10/25/99-- Forest Stewardship Council to Commend Tough UK Scheme
10/23/99--Planting Trees May Not Help Stop Global Warming
10/22/99--Projects to Study Links Between Forests and Global Warming
10/21/99--US Officials Meet and Spar With Eco-Activists Over WTO
10/21/99--WTO Puts Out New Study Report on Trade and Environment
10/20/99--Coastal Tree Deaths Linked to Rise in Sea Level
10/18/99--N. American and European Streams Show Signs of Recovery from Acid Rain Damage
10/17/99--Wired Animal Kingdom Roams US Forests
10/17/99--WTO Threatens Forests, Environment and Democracy
10/17/99--Extinction Continues Long After Deforestation
10/15/99--New WTO Case Study Details Deforestation
10/14/99--Is Species Adaptability More Important Than Biodiversity?
10/14/99--One In 8 Birds Faces Extinction In Next 100 Years
10/14/99--One Database for All Earth's Biodiversity
10/14/99--WTO Blames Poverty for Environment Degradation
10/14/99--Modified Tax Policies Can Help Sustain Ecosystems
10/13/99--Some Say Species Quality is More Important Than Quantity
10/13/99--Some Say Species Quality is More Important than Quantity
10/13/99--WTO Accused of Undermining Democracy, Environment
10/12/99--World Trade Organization Threatens Hard-Won Environmental Laws
10/12/99--Ending Subsidies Could Help Environment, WTO Says
10/10/99--Buying Destruction: A Report for Corporate Consumers of Forest Products
10/8/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 27
10/7/99--Forest Fire Smoke Inhibits Rainfall, Study Says
10/7/99--Sawn Softwood Production, Consumption Up
10/7/99--Columbus Day: Celebrate 500+ Years of Indigenous Resistance
10/6/99--World Trade Rules Put Eco-Treaties at Risk
10/5/99--Satellite Data Shows Smoke Reduces Rainfall
10/5/99--November 4: Day of Action Against the WTO's Assault on Forests
10/5/99--WTO Round Must Allow Environmental Protection, WWF Says
10/4/99--e-Wood.com Debuts as Major Auction, Information Site For Wood Products
10/3/99--Anti-WTO Guerilla Theater Script
10/3/99-- Champion International Corporation Rated Most Influential
10/1/99--Environmental Leaders Planning Protests for WTO Meeting
9/30/99--Wild Tiger Protection Tops CITES Agenda
9/30/99--Birds Keep Dying Decades After Logging Ends
9/30/99--Beyond Geography: Mapping Unknowns of Cyberspace
9/29/99--Researchers Evaluate Wilderness Therapy
9/28/99--A Global Environmental Wake-UP Call from Harvard
9/28/99--WTO Actions Called Threat to World's Forests
9/27/99--Fire's Role in Global Warming Studied
9/26/99--Time is Running out for the Environment, UN Says
9/26/99--Plant Losses Threaten World's Food Supplies
9/26/99--Activists' Boot Camp Teaches How to Confront Trade Leaders
9/24/99--Laser Instrument to Study Forest Health
9/22/99--World Bank Wants Broad WTO Agenda
9/21/99--Seed Varieties Becoming Extinct Worldwide
9/21/99--Protect Environmental Laws from the World Trade Organization
9/18/99--Study Finds Rapid Reduction in Crop Diversity
9/18/99--Mobilizing Against Globalization Could Bring Revolution to Seattle
9/16/99--Charges that World Trade Organization Threatens Forests
9/15/99--UN Warns We're on the Eve of Destruction
9/15/99--Conservationists Fight Tariff Elimination
9/15/99--Ruckus Society Getting Set to Disrupt WTO Conference
9/14/99--US-Backed Trade Plan Puts World's Forests on Chopping Block
9/14/99--Indigenous People's Statement on Patenting of Life
9/13/99--World's Species, Forests Continue to Decline, WWF Says
9/10/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #26
9/9/99--Disappearance of Amphibians a Warning to Humanity
9/8/99--WTO Members Must Show Commitment to Sustainable Development
9/7/99--Natural Repellant Could Save Endangered Tree
9/7/99--Tree Planting By Aerial Bombardment
9/2/99--Aerial Bombardment to Reforest the Earth
8/27/99--How Many Species of Life Become Extinct Every Day?
8/26/99--The Worldwatch Report: Consumers Key to Conservation
8/26/99--The Worldwatch Report: Factor 10 Revisited
8/25/99--Please Help Stop the WTO from 'Chopping Down' Forest Conservation
8/25/99--Enviros Call for a Halt to Tropical Logging
8/25/99-- Are Green Premiums Really Working?
8/24/99--Rainforest Permanently Damaged by Logging
8/23/99--Fight for Life in World of Ash and Sawdust; New Report Details Rainforest Destruction
8/23/99--Conservation International and Starbucks Conclude 'Shady Deal'
8/22/99--World Governments Slammed Over Logging
8/21/99--Burning Trees for Electricity: is Renewable Energy As Green As We Think?
8/20/99--Our Forests At Risk: The World Trade Organization's Threat to Forest Protection
8/19/99--Forest Products Consumption at Record Levels
8/17/99--Greenpeace Says '98 Income Dips, Vows to Fight GMOs
8/14/99--The Coffee Conundrum: More Coffee Often Means Less Trees, Although this Shouldn't Be the Case
8/14/99--Land Use Changes Cause Significant Carbon Loss
8/12/99--Carbon Cost from Logging, Burning and Agriculture
8/12/99--Life On Earth a Billion Years Older Than Previously Shown
8/11/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 25
8/10/99--Campaign for Indigenous Rights Runs into U.S. Opposition
8/6/99--Quarter of World Parrot Species on Brink of Extinction
8/6/99--Are Plants Going the Way of the Dinosaurs?
8/6/99--Python Seeks To Save Parrot From Extinction
8/6/99--Botanists Warn of Mass Extinctions
8/5/99--Puzzling Out The Tree Of Life Of Green Plants
8/5/99--Plant Evolution Theories Challenged by 'Deep Green Project'
8/5/99--Plant Kingdoms' New Family Tree Project Explains Flowers, Identifies a Green 'Eve'
8/4/99--Major Paper Companies Form Forestry Biotech Venture
8/3/99--Scientists Warn of Mass Extinction Because of Human Impact on Environment
8/2/99--Nearly Half of Earth's Land Has Been Transformed by Humans; 50 'Dead Zones' Found in Oceans
7/28/99--Genetically Modified Trees Grow Faster, Environmentally Friendly
7/27/99--Bears Under Threat From Hunters, Chinese Medicine
7/26/99--WWF: Bears Threatened by Poaching, Pollution, Deforestation
7/22/99--Protecting the South's Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
7/22/99--The World Watch Report: Earth's Stocks Down By One-Third
7/22/99--Tree Free Paper Guide
7/21/99--Forest Activists File Suit for a Voice in Government Decisions
7/21/99--British Scientists Isolate Dwarfing Gene in Plants
7/20/99--Enviros Unite to Oppose Free Logging Agreement
7/18/99--Uneasy Partnerships Between Green Groups and Corporations Form Over Environmental Issues
7/17/99--The Hidden Tentacles of the WTO, the World's Most Secret Body
7/17/99--Trees That Never Flower Herald a Silent Spring
7/16/99-- Paper Guide Features Tree-free and Other Alternatives
7/16/99--Globalization Foes Plan to Protest WTO's Seattle Round Trade Talks
7/14/99--Federal Register Notice on WTO Forest Products Agreement
7/12/99--Scientists and Academics Study Cities as Ecosystems
7/8/99--The Forest is More Than a Collection of Trees
7/8/99--Alien Species: A Slow Motion Explosion
7/8/99-- Earth-Friendly Living: Choose 'green' for Home Building Projects
7/5/99--Activists on Internet Reshaping Rules for Global Economy
7/5/99--Giving the Rainforests a (Fire) Break
7/5/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 24
7/2/99--AF & PA Thankful to US Trade Representative for Global Free Logging Agreement
7/1/99--Global Forest Trade Battle Looming with WTO
6/30/99--World Bank & World Conservation Union Cement Partnership
6/29/99--Nature Groups See WTO Pact as Threat
6/28/99--World-Wide Campaign Launched to Combat WTO Assault on Last Remaining Forests
6/28/99--Global Campaign Launched to Combat WTO Assault On Last Remaining Forests
6/18/99--Tropical Timbers Not Doing Well in World Markets
6/17/99--Study Questions 'Controlled Wildfires'
6/17/99--If Banana Battle is Indicator, WTO Will Launch WWIII on World's Forests
6/17/99--Why Forest Activists Need to Be Prepared to Battle the WTO
6/16/99--Metal Mining Threatens Nature Worldwide New Report Says
6/14/99--Current Estimates of Rates on Tropical Forest Destruction
6/14/99--Are Genetically Engineered Franken Trees the Wave of the Future?
6/12/99--Extensive Logging Has Increased Hunting for Wild Animals Says Report
6/11/99--Endangered Tigers Draw $3 Million Pledge, New Legislation
6/11/99--Study Shows Controlled Burns Lead to More Intense Wildfires
6/11/99--Gold Mining Wreaks Havoc for Indigenous Communities and Eco-Systems Worldwide
6/8/99--World Mayors Meet to Combat Global Desertification
6/7/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 23
5/28/99--A Vision for Peace: Waging War Against Environmental Destruction
5/26/99--Briefing Paper: The World Bank's Forest Policy Implementation Review and Strategy Development
5/25/99--The Wall Street Transcript Publishes Paper and Forest Products Industry Issue
5/21/99--Both Sides of Biotech Battle Pounce on Butterfly Study
5/19/99--The Worldwatch Report: Fixing Crises Without Creating More
5/19/99--Conserving Wetlands is a Global Priority
5/16/99--Loggers Plan Giant Genetically Manipulated Trees
5/16/99--Forests of Giant Genetically Altered Trees Being Planned
5/14/99--Forest Carbon-Sink Potential Explored
5/13/99--Industry Pushes Free Logging Agreement under WTO
5/12/99--The Worldwatch Report: Why Are We Not Astonished at Environmental Destruction?
5/11/99--Ramsar Wetlands Partners to Strengthen, Refine Treaty
5/11/99--Week-Long Conference Focuses on Interrelations Between Human Societies and Wetland Habitats
5/10/99--UN Development Programme Urges More Investment
5/6/99--WWF Urges Six Countries to Sign Wetlands Treaty to Prevent Flooding
4/29/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 22
4/28/99--New Plan to Save World's Forests
4/28/99--Giant Companies to Phase Out Biotech Foods
4/22/99--Scientists Find First Tree of the Forests
4/22/99-- Roy Keene's Statement to the Board of Forestry on Sustainability
4/20/99--World Commission on Forests Calls Decline of Forests 'Relentless'
4/20/99--Top Level Commission Says World Forest Crisis Can Be Reversed
4/20/99--Commission Proposes New Initiatives to Save World's Forests
4/17/99--Studies Document Ease of Ecosystem Disruption
4/15/99--World Population Faces Multiple Environmental Problems on Eve of New Century
4/14/99-- 1st International Certified Wood Trade Fair Opens
4/14/99-- Opening Markets Serve Opportunity to Conserve Forests
4/13/99--Global Forest Watch Works to Preserve World's Frontier Forests
4/7/99--Monsato Will Develop Trees That Grow Faster, Make Better Paper
3/31/99-- 'Green' Consumerism Starts to Benefit Some Forests
3/26/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 21
3/20/99--Worst Forest Fires in History Seen All Across Globe
3/17/99-- International Community Forestry Movement Launched
3/15/99--Environmentalists Blast WTO Wood Trade Plans
3/12/99--Global Forest Protection vs. The New WTO Agenda
3/9/99--FAO Obsessed With Upsurge in Bushfires
3/6/99--Global Forest Protection Versus the New WTO Agenda
3/4/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin 20
3/1/99--World Forest Cover Beats a Rapid Retreat
2/28/99-- The Promises and Pitfalls of Ecotourism
2/27/99--Stand-Off Brings New Delay for Biosafety Protocol
2/24/99--It's the Ecology, Stupid!; Environmental Issues Need to Be Addressed in National Political Campaigns
2/15/99--Tourism and Environment: Enemies or Allies?
2/10/99--International List of Non-Timber Forest Product Topics
2/5/99--New Study Casts Doubt on Some Forest Conservation Methods
2/4/99--A Cure for AIDS? Answer is in the Rainforest
2/4/99--Plants Thwart Pests by Sending out Chemical Distress Signals
2/2/99--Carbon Dioxide Findings Raise Biodiversity Concerns
2/1/99-- SAANICH Statement of Principles on Forests and Communities
1/20/99--Activists Step Up War to Liberate Nature
1/16/99--New Economic Model Needed for Next Century
1/16/99--Ecological Misfortunes could Bring Economic Blessings
1/13/99--Sustainable Forestry and Certification Watch in Canada
1/8/99--Gardeners and Growers Should Oppose 'Terminator Technology' in Plants
1/1/99--World Rainforest Movement Bulletin #19: Addressing Deforestation Now a Matter of Political Will
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