He displayed the only things he still owns: an axe, a wire for trapping wild animals, a tattered green gym bag, a cooking pot, and a wicker basket.

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Most of the green tea research has been done on animals.

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They provide a "green backdrop" to the story of charismatic animals at risk and yet without plants, those animals would be at even greater risk of extinction.

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Her bed is under a mountain of stuffed animals, which all turn out to be frogs: bright green, light green, Day-Glo green, some with stuffed flies attached to their tongues.

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The pan-African Great Green African Wall (GGW), a lush strips of vegetation capable of supporting birds and other animals, would stretch from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east to Dakar, Senegal in the west on the southern edge of the Sahara.

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Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano's 2008 landmark green building, the California Academy of Sciences, houses Pierre the Penguin and 38, 000 other weird and wonderful animals under a "living roof" of California wildflowers.

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Some communities are ecologically friendly: they use solar power and green methods of waste removal, undertaking the daunting challenge of hauling non-biodegradable items off the mountain via pack animals as opposed to burning or burying trash.

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