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Indeed, as an investigation of Central European alcoholic despair in temporary accommodation in Tasmanian rain forests it has a considerable, hypnotic power.
ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia
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It has rampaged eastwards into northern Alberta for the first time. (It has also made localised attacks on forests in all 11 western American states.) Scientists now fear the voracious beetle is about to invade the jack pines of the boreal forest, which could see the plague sweep across northern Canada to the Atlantic coast.
ECONOMIST: Pining for a cold winter
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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.
ECONOMIST: Marine conservation