The price also funds tree planting (10 are planted with each new customer) and environmental education. You can see major movies that are "carbon neutral," buy any flavor of organic yogurt and even watch as Bob Costas recaps Sunday football by candlelight for NBC. Beware the middleman If you need help with being a green consumer, there are plenty of companies eager to assist you for a fee. While the USDA does not certify every product out there, companies whose claims don't meet the...

This worldwide investigation, shot in high definition, looks at four key issues: climate change, vanishing habitats, disappearing species and human population growth. CNN takes viewers around the world in a two-part, four-hour documentary that examines our changing planet. From exposing illegal wildlife trading undercover in Southeast Asia to seeing first hand the devastating effects of deforestation in Brazil, they have gathered evidence on the unsettling changes taking place all around...

Production will start at a mill in Maine early next year, even though LP doesn't expect the product to gain significantly until timber prices climb again. This was a piece of laminated strand lumber, or LSL, a material that, when produced in full-size boards, could someday replace 20-foot studs in home construction. Company officials believe it will complement their offerings of beams, I-joists and siding that is, once a revived homebuilding industry starts driving timber prices up again....

The worry is that species of plants and animals will die and life will never be quite the same in forested hills and valleys rising from the river. HWACHEON, South Korea The conflict between North and South Korea has claimed hundreds of thousands of human casualties over more than half a century, but the latest group at risk is a different species entirely the otter. By now, however, the waters have receded to a trickle as the north branch of the Han flows sadly across the demilitarized...

The atmospheric content of carbon dioxide, the primary source of global atmospheric warming, has climbed from 316 parts per million in 1958 to a level never reached in the geologic recent past 387 ppm in 2007 with more than another quarter of the total carbon dioxide being absorbed by ocean water, which thereby will become increasingly acidic. Klaus Gohrbandt There is no doubt that man has made, and still makes, detrimental impacts on his habitat by his greenhouse gas emissions, his...

Forests Torched In Doda ARIF SHAFI WANI Srinagar, Nov 11: In a glaring example of open loot of timber, officials in collusion with timber contractors managed forest fires to make fortunes by under-valuing the extracted trees, including prized Deodar, in Doda district of Jammu since 1990, official sources and documents reveal. Forests Torched In Doda ARIF SHAFI WANI Srinagar, Nov 11: In a glaring example of open loot of timber, officials in collusion with timber contractors managed forest...

He said Strain contacted him Thursday and asked him to lead the committee of farmers, ag industry officials and others who have expertise in farming, ranching and timber interests. Ronnie Anderson, who has served as president of the state s largest general farm organization for the last 18 years, is a cattle, forage and timber producer from Ethel. Among those issues will be addressing producer organization needs, reviewing ag boards and policy initiatives and performance evaluations within...

Hillary Clinton's plan to rid this nation of incandescent bulbs may be the perfect symbol of how Americans can lose their freedom to a government bent on changing the world. Print Article This is a printer friendly version of an article from www.washingtontimes.com To print this article open the file menu and choose Print. Nor is the light bulb you use the only thing she intends to change in your home, and in your life, in her crusade to save Earth from overheating. At the windmill...

Coastwide project kicks off to replace trees destroyed by Katrina. The tree-planting project will take three years to complete. Ocean Springs aims to plant 2,500 coastal heritage trees. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Organizers of Replant Ocean Springs say the meeting will be held at 7 p. at the Ocean Springs Library. The Ocean Springs group is an offshoot of Replant South Mississippi, which aims to replenish lost trees with faster-growing native...