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A federal judge struck down regulations that limited the public's ability to challenge U.S. Forest Service decisions on timber sales and other projects.

Minnesotans are recycling at about the same rate as a decade ago, but they're also producing more trash than ever before. And because of a state population increase, so much more garbage is being created that Minnesota will need new landfills and incinerators sooner than expected.

Conservationists dedicated the state's newest Wildlife Management Area on Wednesday, as a result of a partnership that will mean additional protection for the Broxton Rocks, a south Georgia sandstone rock outcropping with deep crevasses and waterfalls that provides a home for hundreds of plant and animal species, some of them endangered.

The hills of the Weld Valley in southern Tasmania, Australia, are blanketed with forests. Their value to the economy of the remote region is both in their beauty, which attracts tourists, as well as the raw material that is vital to a timber industry that employs 8,000 people in the state. Passions run high on both sides of the debate about conservation and logging.

Roger Harvey wants to wean pigs off of antibiotics.

The fresh fragrance released by trees in northern pine forests is a significant component in slowing climate change, according to research.

For centuries, Cahuilla men scoured the mountains above the Coachella Valley, harvesting a plant they would eat, weave into sandals and even into baby cradles. The traditional quest for the sweet-tasting agave continues today and next weekend during the Malki Museum's 12th annual harvest and tasting.