Tiny bug takes large toll on Europe's forests

Portuguese officials struggle to halt the spread of pine wilt disease, which is a menace from Scandinavia to Greece. Manuel Coimbra watches in silence, his hands on his hips, as a lumberjack saws down one of his pine trees to stop a killer bug that experts say could wipe out large belts of European woodland.

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