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Difficult but rewarding work: Planting trees to aid climate

Destruction of the forests can be swift. In a corner of the Peruvian Amazon, where illegal gold mining has scarred forests and poisoned ground, scientists work to change wasteland back to wilderness. More than 3,000 miles to the north, on former coal mining land across Appalachia, workers rip out old trees that never put down deep roots and make the soil more suitable to regrow native tree...

10-fold surge in S.Africa teens treated for HIV: study

The number of young people in South Africa receiving treatment for HIV has increased 10-fold within a decade, a major new study has found. AIDS deaths have declined globally since the peak of the epidemic in the early 2000s, but an international AIDS commission warned last year of a resurgence if the world's booming adolescent population weren't...