Ancient Forest Threatened By Airport Expansion Bid
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By Cahal Milmo From Plantagenet hunting parties to the 250,000 ramblers who now stroll among its ancient trees, Hatfield Forest has coexisted with humanity for generations without coming to much harm.
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A playground is to be shipped from County Durham to Africa in a project to improve life in a cluster of villages.   Tree Appeal is a company based at High Etherley, near Bishop Auckland, which helps firms plant trees as part of their environmental policies.
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece, Aug. 27 -- Firefighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Sunday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of antiquity.
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The Galapagos Islands may have to be listed as "in danger" because tourism is threatening the environment that helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the chairman of Unesco's World Heritage Committee warned yesterday.
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The idea of destroying a swathe of rainforest, home to hundreds of rare species, to clear land for a sugar plantation is an environmentalist's worst nightmare.
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Environmental campaigners say plans for a dam in Montenegro will threaten a Unesco world heritage site.
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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.
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DEMAND for water and continued development of the Klang Valley and Selangor has left Mother Nature shaking her head. The Lakum Forest Reserve, home to many protected animals and plants of medicinal value, is to be flooded by the Kelau Dam.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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BIRMINGHAM International Airport has embarked on a treeplanting initiative to help offset its carbon emissions.  The project to plant dozens of established trees and saplings in Radleys Park, Sheldon, involves pupils from a local primary school.
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Public inquiry into controversial plans to expand airport opens amid growing row over climate change impact.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes inhospitable to prized species.
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Plans to build a motorway close to one of Ireland's most historic sites are attacked by campaigners.
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Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.
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Wild animals are vanishing Kenya&#39;s oldest game reserve which borders the airport at Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service warned in a report unveiled on Friday.
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From the ruins of a failed logging venture in Chile's Tierra del Fuego, an effort to manage and preserve the world's southernmost old-forest wilderness is about to begin.
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A globally important Turkish wetland for thousands of birds is threatened by development, conservationists say.