In a windswept, snow-dusted forest clearing, three siblings bury their eight-month-old brother.

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The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

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It could also mean clearing of forest and blasting of mountainsides to rig high tension power lines in once-picturesque environments.

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Its derives from the fact that many houses sprung up after a clearing in a forest, where there had been a fire.

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On the environmental side, it notes that demand for biofuels has accelerated the clearing of primary forest for palm plantations, particularly in southeast Asia.

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"Give me the carbine then, " he said and when Pablo handed it to him, he slung it over his back and, with the two men climbing ahead of him, they went heavily, pulling and climbing up the granite shelf and over its upper edge to where there was a green clearing in the forest.

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To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans.

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In a sense, today's crisis is like a forest fire running through the ecosystem of the economy, clearing out the mature monocultures of the past and allowing a more heterogeneous blossoming of new start-ups to emerge and redefine markets.

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Beneath the hovering helicopter, an ugly mud-orange clearing has been cut for it from the lush green forest.

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After a few hours, a small roe deer trots into the clearing ahead before abruptly turning and running, as if having suddenly recalled an appointment elsewhere in the forest.

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