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When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.

If Social Security is a slow tire leak, then the post-2020 General Fund is an urgent brake job, Medicare and Medicaid are a melted transmission, and the budget deficit is the equivalent of having just crashed into a tree.

Simple computer programs can compare two or more strings of these units and evaluate degrees of similarity, search huge databases to match new sequences against known ones, and cluster groups of sequences in the form of a family tree.

The assumption was that random changes occur along all limbs of a genetic tree, but depending on the protein, only some small fraction survives.

Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin.

He planted a tree.

The conventional wisdom is that burning wood only releases the carbon sucked up while the tree was growing, and hence the net climate effect is zero.

Together with the Christmas tree, Sankt Niklaus, as the Germans called the benefactor, became a central figure in German Christmas habits.

We must walk the path to the tree of knowledge if we are to control our destiny.

Homes are the most local of investments, rooted to a particular place like a tree, and thus thriving or withering in response to local economic conditions.

Once again, some Christians say that we have all inherited the original sin committed by Eve, who defied God's decree against eating from the tree of knowledge.

The 2,000 Chiquitanos living around the park contend that a tree holds up the Amazon's seven skies, and they are living that belief in a modern way: by using their forests to help reduce the stratospheric greenhouse gasses that cause global warming.

New cities are constantly ripening like so many cherries on a tree, drawing people away from older, original cities.

Why do local politicians, tree lovers all, allow yet more forest destruction?

Google has become a de facto gatekeeper of information, to the extent that if your site is not highly ranked by Google, you are like the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

The sector went into long decline thereafter, as a combination of adverse policies and civil war from 1982-1992 brought new tree plantings to a halt.

Liberalization could have reinvigorated the rural sector by reversing the collapse in cashew tree planting.

And yet almost everyone has a migrant somewhere in their family tree, often not many generations back.

Large tracts of boreal forest across North America and Eurasia have only a handful of tree species, while the Amazon basin may house 16,000.

They may, therefore, like to consider another option: discouraging tree-felling only in those areas that have high recent rates of deforestation.