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Invasive plants can cause economic and environmental damage. Nonindigenous plants cost an estimated 34 billion dollars annually in losses, damages, and control costs (Pimentel et al., 2000). In agricultural and natural areas, they can displace desirable vegetation, resulting in reduced productivity, wildlife forage, and habitat.

An investment fund that focuses on the forestry sector yesterday announced the acquisition of rights for 6,100 acres of Big Island timber for $6.1 million.

The leadership and staff of the Parrish Medical Center in Titusville, Fla., believe that the physical environment can play a significant role in patient care. When constructing its flagship inpatient facility in 2002, Parrish created a healing environment that contributes to good health and patient-centered outcomes through the creative use of evidence-based design.

Conifer trees in the Sierra Nevada are dying at nearly double the rate as they were two decades ago, stressed by hotter temperatures and lower precipitation, according to a study to be presented later this week.

The critter that's turning vast swatches of Colorado's forest a melancholy, rusty red was here long before you were, and will be here long after you go. Next year these dead forests will be even bigger, but it's all part of the ecosystem - so learn to deal with it.

The critter that's turning vast swatches of Colorado's forest a melancholy, rusty red was here long before you were, and will be here long after you go. Next year these dead forests will be even bigger, but it's all part of the ecosystem - so learn to deal with it.

Six new species, including a bat and two frogs, have been discovered in Democratic Republic of the Congo in an eastern area off limits to scientists for decades because of violence, a wildlife group said on Tuesday. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said researchers conducted a survey of a remote forested region just west of Lake Tanganyika between January and March.