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Forests gain long-awaited recognition in Paris climate summit

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imageColombia's El Paujil Bird ReserveIUCNWeb/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

The climate change agreement adopted by 195 countries in Paris last week raised the profile of forests in ways never seen before.

In past multilateral environmental conferences, deforestation proved too thorny for nations to reach agreement. Now, however, some of the most heavily forested...

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