Forest News
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London -
Christopher Ronald Tame died 6 years ago today; for many years he was Britain's leading Libertarian, but what if anything do you know about him?
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Wednesday, March 14 is No Smoking Day 2012. Be sure to light up a symbolic cigarette or cigar to show the nanny state what you think of it.
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London -
The latest stunt by the anti-smoking lobby is a campaign to restrict the packaging of cigarettes. Now the opposition is fighting back.
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A recent study claims to find an association between passive smoking and teenage deafness, but is this just more anti-smoking hype?
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Tokyo -
High levels of radiation, planned evacuations and no-entry zones as a result of the meltdown at Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear facility have combined to place the prefecture’s forest industry in danger of collapse.
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Just north of the Canadian Arctic Circle, research scientist Joel Barker of Ohio State University found the remains of a mummified forest. The forest is between two and eight million years old.
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Pigs are busy making the UK’s New Forest safe for other animals. They are gobbling up green acorns, which are poisonous to horses, ponies and cattle.
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West Hollywood -
Shrek, Dreamworks and the USDA Forest Service have teamed up to get kids away from the television and out of the house in a series of new PSA's. The loveable Shrek encourages kids to "get outside and explore nature, there are surprises everywhere."
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A woman who was living wild in the jungles of Cambodia for most of her life until being discovered three years ago, has disappeared and is believed to have returned to the forest.
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Trafalgar Square, London, has been taken over by a ghost forest. Artist Angela Palmer intends to inspire and provoke debate about the future of the world's rainforests with her installation of rainforest tree stumps from Western Africa.
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Forest Headlines
Researchers discover a forest in northern China that was preserved in volcanic ash following an eruption 300 million years ago.
Troops and firefighters are battling to contain wildfires that have engulfed parts of the La Primavera forest, near Guadalajara.
Brazil's Congress approves controversial changes to the country's forest code which environmentalists say will spur Amazon deforestation.
 A forest fire is threatening homes and cottages near the northeastern Ontario town of Kirkland Lake.
 Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own.
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Nitrogen pollution is fertilizing tropical forests in Thailand, Panama and Brazil, Smithsonian Institution scientists have claimed.
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