Plan agreed to save Anne Frank tree from the axe
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Dutch officials and conservationists have reached a deal to save the tree that brought comfort to Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis, prolonging its life by up to 15 years.
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Forest-preservation pledges of $166 million this week could entice them to take part in a post-Kyoto climate deal.
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Struggling German retailer KarstadtQuelle on Thursday agreed with employee representatives on a cost-cutting plan that will include eliminating some 5,500 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force, and a three-year pay freeze.
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ABINGTON -- After 28 years, Tricia Ford has finally convinced her husband to scrap a Christmas tradition: a real tree.
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Rival groups in Ivory Coast have agreed to a peace plan put forward by the South African President Thabo Mbeki. Government, Opposition and rebel leaders in Ivory Coast have endorsed the deal.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has promised to preserve Tasmania's forests while keeping loggers in work.
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Residents of Peat Sadeh, a Jewish settlement at the Gaza Strip, have agreed to evacuate their houses within the framework of the plan for withdrawal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that foresees the evacuation of 21 Jewish settlements on the Gaza
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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A &quot;near unanimous&quot; majority of Lazard&#39;s formerly feuding partners have agreed to support Bruce Wasserstein&#39;s controversial plan to take the 156-year-old investment banking partnership public, according to an internal memorandum sent to the firm&#39;s partners
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DUNCANNON, Pa. - Residents of this central Pennsylvania community are marking the holidays with a 4-foot potted evergreen tree instead of the 20-foot tree that has been used for the past eight years, because of a feud between the borough council and a local business.
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A 15-year plan would restore salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, more than 100 years after the farmland was drained and diked.
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By The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb. 12--The damage done to trees by the October Surprise storm was heart-wrenching, and it was clear from the beginning that many resources would have to be pooled to help the urban forest recover.
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Merkel's lobbying efforts pay off as leaders agree path to halve greenhouse emisisons.
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DEMOLITION of a landmark former brewery got und
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The iconic tree that gave Brazil its name and the world's violinists their bows got extra protection Thursday to prevent it from sliding toward extinction.
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The negotiations with employees which started by UPM at the end of August in the company's Wood Products Division have reached completion.
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By Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 15--A plan to create a Bristol Bay game refuge in honor of former Gov.