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Trees are dying twice as fast as they did three decades ago in older forests of the western United States and scientists suspect warming temperatures are a contributing factor.

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A market for forest carbon credits is beginning to congeal, but it's still far from solid. That's the message hammered home by carbon market experts at a recent workshop organized by the Western Forestry and Conservation Association.

It was brought to the United States as a hedge and is now more of a nuisance. Buckthorn multiplies so fast it literally chokes native plants and trees, but the Department of Natural Resources has come up with a powerful pilot plan to make use of the plant. "Most of the material here that has grown up has only grown up in the last 25-30 years," said MN DNR's Mark Cleveland.

Ayear and a half ago, researchers found that a deadly form of staph infection was prevalent on Canadian pig farms. This year, the superbug was found in both swine and workers at U.S. farms.

A major Chinese supermarket chain pulled baby products made by US-based health care giant Johnson & Johnson from its shelves Monday after allegations that the products contain carcinogens. Shanghai-based Nonggongshan Supermarkets Corp., which operates 3,500 stores in eastern China, pulled the products in response to a debate over the products' safety.

China will likely launch a challenge "very, very soon" in the World Trade Organization of a provision in the recently completed 2009 omnibus appropriations act that keeps in place a U.S. ban on processed Chinese chicken exports, a senior Chinese trade official said yesterday (March 18).