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Science paper: overharvesting of Brazil nuts leading to fewer trees

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Brazil nuts, those time-honored holiday stocking stuffers, will continue to help save the rainforest — as long at least a few of the brown morsels are left behind to grow into trees.

Filed under Environment, Research, Sciences on Thursday, December 18, 2003.

First experiments on birds of paradise tie metabolism, ecology

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Birds of paradise, those resplendent, elaborately-shaped birds of the South Pacific, hardly seem like a potential source for ironclad biological fact.

Filed under Environment, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, December 10, 2003.