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Biden moves to protect the Tongass, North America's largest rainforest, from logging and road building

  • Written by Beverly Law, Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
Biden moves to protect the Tongass, North America's largest rainforest, from logging and road buildingView of Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, southeastern Alaska. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably point to South America. But North America has rainforests too – and like their tropical counterparts, these temperate...

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