A major energy bill signed last month by President Bush could decrease domestic oil consumption by increasing biofuels, but opposition to the new law has come hard and fast from an unusual source: environmentalists.

PANAMA CITY, Panama, April 12 (UPI) -- A rainforest biologist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama says developing nations may help stop tropical forest destruction.

BALBOA, Panama, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. and Brazilian scientists have found that the rate of forest destruction has accelerated significantly in Brazil's Amazonia region since 1990.

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