Nowhere on Earth can you find forests as tall and vast as those in the Pacific Northwest. That's strikingly clear in the first global map charting the heights of the world's forests. Beyond bragging rights, such mapping should help track how the world's forests soak up carbon dioxide and influence global warming.
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Illegal logging is still a major problem, especially when considered in the context of climate change: Deforestation generates up to 20 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions.

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BANCO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine rainforest.
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