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"An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing-and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and...
6) At loggerheads?: agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests
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World Bank
Pub. Date
2007
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English
14) Integrated land-change science and tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán: final frontiers
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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World Bank working paper volume no. 22
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World Bank
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Patagonia Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, "even the pine tree stood on its own very hills" but when civilization took over, "the mountain oak, the pine were felled." This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the...
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Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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By their sheer size and original shapes, baobabs are among the most remarkable trees on the planet. Relatively unknown in Madagascar, the giants are currently threatened by deforestation. To study them, in the heart of their forests, the French biologist Cyrille Cornu travel by pirogue with his colleague Wilfried Ramahafaly, exploring 400 km of wild and isolated coastline in the southwest of Madagascar.