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The rebels of Aceh are trading their guns for chain saws and cashing in on a logging binge that is jeopardizing the future of the world's third largest tropical forest reserves.

Multinational logging companies operating in Papua New Guinea are involved in widespread human rights abuses, political corruption and the brutal suppression of workers, environmentalists alleged Monday.

Steve Suppan on free trade agreements and Mexico, Alexandra Spieldoch on the WTO's collapse last month and Dr. Dennis Keeney on climate change and food security.

Forestry officials have gone high-tech in an effort to stop illegal logging, deploying satellites to catch loggers red-handed, the Federal Forestry Agency said Wednesday.

Like people, trees like to head for nicer weather when temperatures get extreme. Trees migrate slowly, of course. But University of Illinois researchers report that the movement of white spruces in Alaska and Canada is even more sluggish than previously believed -- a finding that could add to climate change woes.

For Jack de Golia, the idea of issuing updates on wildfires by fax seems almost quaint. These days, the Forest Service spokesman prefers using the Web to post maps, fact sheets and anything else he thinks will help explain - as quickly and as often as possible - what a wildfire is doing and how firefighters are responding.

A working group has been formed in southeastern Idaho to find out why aspen trees are disappearing. "The trees are dying like they're supposed to do, but then something happens that is killing the root system out completely," Dale Bartos, an ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station's Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Logan, Utah, told the Idaho State Journal.