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Two wild elephants, part of a herd that arrived at a wetland near the Thakurkuchi railway station, engage in a tussle on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam, India, on June 7, 2017. (AP / Anupam Nath)
May 6, 2019, 4:12 pm
UN says nature is in worst shape in human history
Thousand-page report approved by 109 nations concludes over 1 million species of plants and animals facing extinction
By Seth Borenstein
View of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a large game reserve in Narok County, Kenya on September 3, 2014. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)
June 27, 2017, 11:56 pm
Kenya hopes Israeli tree tech takes root in remote deserts
Kenya and KKL/JNF sign MOU for three years of exchange trips and knowledge sharing about establishing forests in arid areas
By Melanie Lidman
Jay Shofet
December 6, 2016, 1:14 pm
Jay Shofet
Plant trees in Israel now? Baaad idea
The rush to replant forests risks lasting harm to the natural ecosystem; better to faciliate healthy, diverse regrowth
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
In this Sunday, March 21, 2010 file photo, shafts of sunlight filtering through the forest canopy strike smoke from fires burning outside family huts at an Mbuti pygmy hunting camp in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell,File)
December 6, 2015, 6:10 am
At climate talks, African nations pledge to restore forests
Tropical deforestation said to produce 15 percent of carbon emissions; states seek to restore 386,000 square miles by 2030
By LYNSEY CHUTEL
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