Tag: forests
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This treehouse hotel sits in an otherworldly forest. Here’s how to get your reservation
The drive to Treehouse Point, half an hour east of Seattle, takes you through a forest fit for hobbits, crowded full of fir, spruce, cedar, maple and hemlock. Alongside the Raging River — yes, that’s its name — you get to a gate, punch in the secret code and enter a realm where it’s perfectly…
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Activists build treehouses to protest Tesla’s plans to expand its plant near Berlin
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Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks
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Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
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Carnival dancers have taken the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro to pay tribute to Brazil’s largest Indigenous group and pressure President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to deliver on promises to eradicate illegal mining
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The prison that helped build ‘the city at the end of the world’
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Some call this prison the Alcatraz of Argentina. Its inmates helped build what’s now known as the city at the end of the world. Sent here in the early 1900s to populate the country’s southern tip, they paved the roads and heated homes with timber they hauled by train from nearby forests. Ushuaia’s frigid climate…
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Game-time guacamole may get harder to make as climate reduces avocado shipments from Mexico
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Game-time guacamole may be getting harder to make