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More businesses want to use environmentally friendly paper, and two Cleveland printers are among a growing number that have been certified by an international organization that sets standards for how trees should be harvested.

The problem is big, but the cupboard is nearly bare. A state task force assigned to provide ideas to reduce the number of large wildfires has found the U.S. Forest Service lacks the money to appreciably restore forest health and reduce wildfire danger in Arizona in the next 20 years.

Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan on Wednesday said Pakistan will sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with Malaysia and Singapore while negotiations are in progress for signing of similar agreements with the European countries.

Canada's vast forests should be protected much more than they are now to preserve wildlife and water and to fight global warming, a group of 1,500 scientists from around the world said Monday.

When Victoria's Secret senior executive Tom Katzenmeyer saw the full page ad that eco-group ForestEthics ran in the New York Times two years ago assailing the catalogue retailer as a destroyer of ancient forests, he knew it was no contest.

Major wood buyers in Europe and the United States must persuade China to bring its booming timber trade under control before it causes irreplaceable deforestation across the world, a report said on Wednesday.

Washington -- The Bush administration has reached a tentative agreement with key Democratic congressional leaders, significantly increasing chances that a host of free trade agreements (FTAs) will clear Congress and give a boost to global trade negotiations.

The US Congress and the Bush administration reached what they said was a "historic" deal Thursday, on including provisions on labor and environmental standards in bilateral free-trade agreements.