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Pines woman accused of molesting boy, 12
2014-01-13 21:45:08| Real Estate - Topix.net
A Pembroke Pines woman is charged with multiple counts of lewd and lascivious battery and molestation of 12-year-old boy.
Sea-level rise taking the pines out of Big Pine Key
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WLRN: Big Pine Key takes its name from the pine forests that cover the island, about 30 miles from Key West. Rare plants and endangered animals -- such as the Key deer -- live in those forests. But now the forests and hammocks are threatened by the rising seas around and beneath them. Robert Ehrig points to a piece of land that was hardwood hammock when he came to live here 35 years ago. All the palms in here are dead, Ehrig said. The last one died about the time of Hurricane Wilma, about seven,...
Pembroke Pines man gets life sentence in murder of adoptive mother| Video
2013-10-17 15:54:29| Real Estate - Topix.net
A Broward judge said Gerard Lopes Belmonte resembles the "portrait of a true sociopath" for not showing remorse or emotion after raping and killing his adoptive mother and dumping her body in a swamp.
International Paper grant aimed at restoring shortleaf pines to Cumberland Plateau
2013-09-24 12:35:56| Paper - Topix.net
A species of pine tree that once thrived on the Cumberland Plateau is the focus of a new initiative to restore healthy forests throughout the South.
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At Crater Lake, pine beetles decimate whitebark pines
2013-08-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The latest mountain pine beetle infestation appears to be slowing down in Eastern Oregon, but not before becoming the leading killer of the signature tree of Crater Lake National Park - the whitebark pine. Park botanist Jennifer Beck says the beetle now kills more of the gnarled trees that grace the highest elevations of the park than an invasive fungus called white pine blister rust that also attacks them. "The older trees they are attacking are centuries old," said Beck. "They are often the...