12-09-04 Portugal has said it is seeking European Union help to to tackle raging forest fires, in one of the worst summers for such blazes in years. 葡萄牙政府正在寻求欧盟的帮助来处理肆虐的森林大火，这是西班牙近年来最糟糕的发生如此火灾的夏天。 Dozens of fire...

12-08-16 A series of forest searches by dogs specially trained to sniff out northern spotted owl pellets（芯块，小球） -- the undigested bones, fur and other bits regurgitated（反刍） by owls -- improved the probability of finding the owls by nearly 30 perce...

12-05-14 The progressive disappearance of seed-dispersing animals like elephants and rhinoceroses（犀牛） puts the structural integrity and biodiversity of the tropical forest of South-East Asia at risk. With the help of Spanish researchers, an international...

12-05-14 Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers. Fire season across most of the Amazon rain forest typ...

12-04-10 The trade in live plants from around the world has become a major industry in the United States, with new imports now valued at more than $500 billion annually. According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for...

12-03-30 Scientists with the UBC Avalanche Research Group have been studying the impact of clear-cut logging on avalanche（雪崩） terrain in British Columbia. Understanding avalanche behavior and its destructive potential is an important factor in assessing...

12-03-07 After a while he met some woodcutters. 'Where are you going, so deep in the forest?' asked the woodcutters. 'To Hiysi the Wood-Goblin's,' replied the poor man. 'I have this cow's hoof for him. Can you tell me how to find his hut?' 'Keep walking stra...

12-02-07 'Nay, but thou art indeed my little son, whom I bare in the forest,' she cried, and she fell on her knees, and held out her arms to him. 'The robbers stole thee from me, and left thee to die,' she murmured, 'but I recognized thee when I saw thee, an...

12-02-07 Once upon a time two poor woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the ground, and upon the branches of the trees: the frost kept snapping（猛咬） the litt...

12-02-07 And Avarice fled shrieking through the forest, and Death leaped upon his red horse and galloped away, and his galloping（飞驰） was faster than the wind. And out of the slime at the bottom of the valley crept dragons and horrible things with scales,...