Thick Forests, Thick Issues for Rey
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With wildfires burning in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Nevada this week, the firestorm over the Bush administration's logging policies continued, and the man in the middle of it all was Mark E. Rey.
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New development on the Tejon Ranch has environmentalists concerned about the health of a fragile landscape, where several distinct ecological regions converge.
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In just the past six weeks, two supernovae have flared up in an obscure galaxy in the constellation Hercules.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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Hayden Christensen of Star Wars fame is unhappy with the overwhelming ambition in Hollywood to get ahead.
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By Christina M. Woods, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb.
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While a rapidly changing climate may alter the composition of northern Wisconsin's forests, disturbances such as logging also will play a critical role in how these sylvan ecosystems change over time.
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By Kelly Hassett, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 11--NELSONVILLE, Ohio -- Andrew Ford thrust his hands into the loose, crumbly soil of the Wayne National Forest yesterday and felt around.
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By TONY DAVIS, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  The Northwest Side's cacti and desert trees stand so dense that sometimes it's impossible to squeeze through them.
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When you first pick up Star Wars: Battlefront, if you&#39;re a seasoned gamer, it will be hard to get a three-word description out of your head.
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By Rebecca Holm, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Feb.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN Down to Earth  Something's been largely missing in the debate over building a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants: the potentially devastating impacts on wildlife.
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A study in Central Africa suggests that logging and tropical rain forests can coexist. Some environmental groups disagree.
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ON THE RIO GRANDE, Texas  - The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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Activists are concerned that conversion of the native hardwood forest to fast-growing pine is damaging crucial habitat for hundreds of plants and animals.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.