Fruits of the forest
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Travel: Roger Deakin's tree-inspired travelogue is a magical and meditative final work, says Rory MacLean.
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People who love their greens have different tastes and social habits to fans of fruit, say nutritional experts. Vegetable lovers favour spicy foods, drink wine with their meals and will cook elaborate dishes for friends.
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Slovoaca Valeriu, left, and Butariu Matei show off some of the saplings they have planted in the fruit orchard that will support their church's orphanage in Draut, Romania.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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By Rosli Zakaria  MARANG: A healthy gaharu or agarwood tree is useless to farmers in Terengganu with even its timber seeing few takers.  But an unhealthy tree is invaluable as it produces a natural resin under attack by micro-organisms.
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The greener side to affairs of the heart.
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Sequencing of the poplar tree may lead to cheaper, more plentiful biofuels.
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A large dietary survey shows that a high intake of fruit and vegetables reduces the risk of heart disease, but not cancer. We are urged to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day to protect
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Dec. 16--Citrus trees are popular backyard plants in and near Stanislaus County, despite their tiny role in the region's commercial agriculture.
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By Kearns, Ethan  News From the world of Trees  Four community groups in Louisiana are the first recipients of AMERICAN FORESTS grants to restore native tree canopy lost to Hurricane Katrina.
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By NATALIE STOREY  Workers preserve forest lands while helping farmers make profits  It wasn't so long ago that farmers and cattle herders in southern Costa Rica, in their efforts to survive, had nearly destroyed part of one of the world's most beautiful rain forests.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 23--SONORA -- Millions of small trees -- small enough to fit under a living room ceiling -- grow amid the big ones in the Stanislaus National Forest.
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world to plant trees at Easter as a symbol of renewal and to protect the planet. planted,&quot; Maathai told Reuters Television in Oslo, where she received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man has done the impossible in any other Alaska summer: growing a record-breaking cantaloupe, a fruit that craves heat and founders in rain. In a season marked by hotter and dryer weather than usual, Scott Robb has produced a 64.8-pound muskmelon - an unofficial world record...
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Readers in Greece have sent in photos of forest across the country.
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A multiyear study involving more than 100,000 participants provides added support that eating lots of fruit and vegetables is good for the heart.
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But to Christmas tree farmers like the owners of Butler Tree Farm in Dowagiac and Pinecrest Farms in Galien, it&#39;s much, much more.