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Perhaps no industry will be more affected by climate change than agriculture. Cropping patterns, pests and plant disease, and access to water will combine to profoundly affect our ability to produce food. And rising fossil fuel prices will undoubtedgly affect fertilizer, pesticide and machinery costs for farmers.

Office supply giant Staples Inc. dropped Asia Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. (APP), one of the world's largest paper companies, as a supplier due to concerns over its environmental performance, reports Tom Wright of the Wall Street Journal.

Fifty years ago, what Alabama landowners called a forest often was land lined with rows of identical pines, planted for profit and clear-cut every three decades.

Ever wonder if you could hack it as a logger? Tune in to "Ax Men," a 13-part History Channel series that follows four Northwest Oregon logging crews through a season on the job. The series makes its debut at 10 p.m. March 9.

Anyone who has ever tried to book a room near Yellowstone National Park in August knows that natural places can get very crowded. But biologist Oliver Pergams says those crowds can hide an important trend: Every year, a smaller percentage of Americans are fishing, camping or engaging in other nature-based activities.

I am immersed in rereading Tolstoy's classic, "War and Peace." It is a new translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky and it is marvelous. I read the book first as a teenager, partly for show, and mostly because I love books.