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Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto, Alex Farrell on low-carbon fuel standards and Mark Muller on the ethanol boom.

When temperatures drop in Colorado's mountains, people start asking - is it cold enough to kill those pesky bark beetles that are destroying the trees? "That's the question of the day," said Ron Cousineau, assistant district forester for the Colorado State Forest Service in Granby. The answer, so far, is no.

People can tell only so many stories. To find out what happened in California before people were here, we have to ask the rocks and trees.

Help is at hand for the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's poverty-stricken rural people - courtesy of the country's famous native nut. Brazil nuts are a valuable food source with a huge market in Europe and North America: up to 7,000 tonnes of unshelled nuts and 20,000 tonnes of shelled nuts are shipped every year.

The federal government made it official Monday: Gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan have bounced back so successfully from the brink of extinction that they no longer need the protection of the endangered species list.

Along an unnamed creek running through private land in the mountains above this rugged town, loggers felled hundreds of trees in early November. When mud thickened the stream that feeds drinking water to the 1,000 residents, public works employees shut off the intake to the treatment plant to prevent clogging its filters or sending dirty water through faucets.