But from planting the bamboo in the Zambian forests to shipping the bicycles to the concrete urban jungles across the world, the process of manufacturing the bikes is far from an easy task.
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The yarns were made by pulling sheets of nanotubes from "forests" of the tubes and twisting them to form a coiled structure - much as yarn is made from wool.
Indonesia possesses the responsibility to manage our forests, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gas effects from the forest.
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Wild boar that have lost legs to landmines can be seen hobbling out from the forests, and when two gorals face each other from either side of the border fence it is hard to tell which one is in the safest area.
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The engineer was driven by motorbike from the place of his captivity deep inside the forests of Chitrakonda to a nearby town.
So, if the removal of the forests from the mountains whose rivers feed the coastal cities is not to blame for disastrous floods, what is?
Greens are suspicious of any efforts to remove trees from national forests not least because the Forest Service has often allowed perfectly healthy trees to be logged in the guise of aiding forest health.
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Edge Renewables wants to buy the three quarries there to chip wood from sustainably managed forests for renewable energy biomass incinerators.
Enormous quantities of air pollution from burning forests led to a dramatic rise in the number of cases of eye irritation, respiratory illness and cardiovascular disease -- examples of the unexpected public health surprises which become more likely in a warming world.
Sometimes I imagine that if we were very still we could hear, rising from the forests and oceans, the quiet laughter of animals, as they listen to us talk.
Know that free trade with poor nations--whose people have to eat--is the best way to stop them from chopping down their rain forests.
Liberia and other developing countries should be able to benefit economically from protecting their forests for the long-term global good, rather than sacrificing them for short-term survival.
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Verrazzano, an Italian in command of a French ship, smelled America before he saw it: "A sweet fragrance, " he wrote, wafted out to sea from the dense cedar forests of the Carolinas.
Today, however, a range of newly popular active sports are reinvigorating the former battlefields, as travellers discover a world of ice-blue rivers, rugged hills and thick forests, which unfurls south from Karlovac to meet the vertiginous Velebit mountains that rise up towards the coast.
Nilgiri comprises six protected areas, from the forests of Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, with its teak, sandalwood and eucalyptus groves, to the dry meadows of its Karnatakan neighbour, Bandipur National Park.
But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.
Far off the main roads, tourism here is even sparser than the route from Lushoto to Mtae, but the violet-covered hills and butterfly-filled cloud forests do lure some visitors, who can access the park independently or through a tour.
Even as people gasp for air in Moscow, Russia's authorities have begun to cut down the forests that surround the city, ostensibly to make space for a badly needed road from Moscow to St Petersburg.
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The waterway widens suddenly -- it is a turning basin, carved in the 1850s to accommodate the lumber barges stacked with wood that was shipped across Lake Michigan from the forests of Wisconsin and Michigan.
Critics also say that in Africa, Asia and South America, people are being driven from their land and forests are being cleared to make room for the booming biofuel industry.
Fromkin says there are eight "radical turns" that have brought us from the African forests of millions of years ago to where we are now, among them: becoming human, inventing civilization, developing a conscience and achieving rationality.
Ranging from rugged uplands, lakes and forests through to gently rolling drumlins, the landscapes of the Global Geopark represent a complex Earth history dating back as far as 650 million years.
Under pressure from environmentalists, he recently promised to phase out the felling of old forests by 2010.
Yet they lack any mechanism to reduce the emissions from cutting and burning the valuable tropical forests of developing countries.
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Wood species vary from one geographic region to another, since farmers and dairymen used the forests around them to make their barns and silos.
Land Girls took on all types of agricultural work while the Women's Timber Corps worked in the forests supplying wood for use in everything from railway sleepers to pit props.
Firms pay the company to plant and manage forests on land leased from local farmers.
The plan called for, among other things, logging healthy trees to pay for the gritty work of culling excess fuel from crowded forests.
Wolfe works mostly in the forests of Cameroon tracking these viruses that can jump from animals to humans - what are called zoonotic viruses.
Boosting troop numbers to deter illegal logging and ranching would thus be a return to two old modes of military thinking: defending the forests from invaders and extending the reach of the state.
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