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The past couple of decades have yielded repeated - and lethal - reminders of how animals can make people sick. Think apes and AIDS, mosquitoes and West Nile virus. The latest example: pigs and MRSA, the bacterium that in recent weeks has infected schoolchildren and caused custodians to scour emptied classrooms, dousing any trace of the germ.

China was criticised at the World Trade Organisation on Monday for its restrictions on foreign news agencies who are unable to sell their information to local media, trade sources said.

As IATP's Sophia Murphy wrote this week, assessing the biofuel sector is complicated.

Why do people live in places like southern California where homes intermingle with wooded areas and the risk of wildfire is so great? Leading social scientists have a surprising answer: because the emotional benefits interfere with their ability to assess the risks.

Agriculture Department investigators are in the Giant Sequoia National Monument this week probing allegations of illegal logging, lawmakers revealed Tuesday.

A bill that would prohibit importing timber and wood products that are illegally harvested passed a congressional committee Wednesday. The U.S. timber industry has complained about unfair competition posed by harvesters in other countries that don't abide by international environmental laws.

At the bottom of the world's largest known Douglas fir, Will Koomjian perches on a 3-foot-wide fallen limb and aims a giant slingshot at a thick branch overhead. He takes a deep breath to steady himself. Then he shouts "headache" to warn the ground crew, pulls back on the rubber tubing and shoots a small lead-weighted orange pouch about 180 feet up.