US, Norway to Fight Rapidly Progressing World Deforestation

The U.S. and Norway have agreed to work more closely together to fight deforestation and global warming, which is progressing so rapidly that every minute, forested land on Earth shrinks by an amount nearly as large as 50 football fields. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signed a joint statement on preserving the world's forests in Oslo with Norwegian climate minister Vidar Helgesen. "Trees, as you all know, are nature's own carbon capture-and-storage mechanism,"...

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