Illegal logging blamed for floods, landslides
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. OFFICIALS partly blamed the extensive floods on illegal logging which had denuded the mountains.
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The Philippines president vows stiff penalties for illegal loggers, after deadly landslides hit the country.
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Ecuador investigates claims that up to 15 Amazonian tribespeople have been killed by illegal loggers.
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Excerpt from report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Illegal Local Government Construction Destroying China's Forests" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the Brazilian government said Tuesday.
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By Meera Pal, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 13--Using nature's tools of logs and tree roots, local, state and federal agencies have joined efforts to battle streambank erosion along the Arroyo de la Laguna between Pleasanton and Sunol.
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PERRYSBURG, Ohio - It was a clear-cut error: A state worker mowed down 28,000 young trees that had been planted as part of a $33,000 highway beautification project.    The only thing left behind were signs that read "Do not mow or spray."  "Shame on us...
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - More than 300 people are dead following landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines, officials said Tuesday.
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MANILA, Philippines -- A powerful storm has triggered landslides and flash floods that have killed as many as 350 people in the eastern Philippines, according to officials.
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An area of Amazon jungle larger than the U.S. state of New Jersey has been destroyed this year and work on a new highway is mainly to blame, environmental group Friends of the Earth and the government said on Wednesday.
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Torrential rains have triggered landslides and flash floods that have killed 19 people and injured 40 in China&#39;s western province of Sichuan, state media said today.
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Rivers of mud, rocks and uprooted trees scarred the landscape in a mountain valley where dozens of people were missing Monday after devastating floods and landslides, the latest victims from torrential rains across Venezuela and Colombia that have killed at least 86 people.
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Mexican police and soldiers arrested three men Monday during an operation to fight illegal logging in a mountain region south of Mexico City where an environmentalist was killed last month.
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Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.
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Near a rock formation twisting into the Arizona sky, the desert floor has been torn up by off-road vehicles. A tattered VCR and a bullet-riddled washing machine further scar the landscape. Tonto is one of many national forests that suffer environmental damage caused by thoughtless, even unscrupulous, visitors. And the U.S. Forest Service doesn't have the cash or manpower to tackle the problem.
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Colombia and Venezuela are hit by floods and landslides that kill more than 86 and leave thousands homeless.