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Temperate rainforests once covered around 20% of the UK, but today it covers less than 1%.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Still, Trump said in a round of interviews that a deal could be reached in a matter of days, ending less than two weeks of negotiations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

It raised $1 billion in Series H funding in February at a roughly $23 billion valuation, less than five months after being valued at $8.1 billion after a Series G funding round.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Though the GPR is quite volatile on a day-to-day basis, in mid-April it dipped to less than half of its early-March high — and less than a third of its 2025 high last June.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

HOLOLIBRARIAN: Your search will be complete in less than one minute.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly