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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5700/A31.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Europe Turns to Firewood during Energy Crisis' data-article-id='6271'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11125'>Europe’s energy crisis has forced some people to turn to less costly heating sources such as firewood.</span> <span data-start-time='11125' data-end-time='23667'>But as demand increases, the public is facing rising prices, shortages and even reports of firewood theft. </span> <span data-start-time='23667' data-end-time='38771'>Foresters are using GPS devices to follow their logs while others fear the environmental impact of increased air pollution and tree cutting.</span> <span data-start-time='38771' data-end-time='48688'>In Moldova, Tudor Popescu splits firewood that will heat his home in the capital of Chisinau. </span> <span data-start-time='48688' data-end-time='59708'>As the nights turn colder, the load of firewood has been growing higher around him his supplies for the coming winter.</span> <span data-start-time='59708' data-end-time='68813'>In the past, Popescu depended on natural gas for warmth in the mornings and firewood at night. </span> <span data-start-time='68813' data-end-time='76917'>But gas is now in short supply, following Russia’s major cut to gas exports.</span> <span data-start-time='76917' data-end-time='82917'>Russian energy business Gazprom has threatened even more reductions.</span> <span data-start-time='82917' data-end-time='89521'>“I won’t use gas anymore, so it’s going to only be wood,” Popescu said. </span> <span data-start-time='89521' data-end-time='93604'>“But what I have isn’t enough.”</span> <span data-start-time='93604' data-end-time='100583'>The demand for firewood in Europe is not limited to poorer nations like Moldova. </span> <span data-start-time='100583' data-end-time='116271'>Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic’s state-owned forests are seeing much stronger demand for the limited amounts of firewood they sell as part of their sustainable forest programs.</span> <span data-start-time='116271' data-end-time='126958'>The German forestry service has reported getting requests for firewood from people who had never sought firewood before. </span> <span data-start-time='126958' data-end-time='133958'>The people seemed not to know that the firewood process takes two years. </span> <span data-start-time='133958' data-end-time='146438'>That is how long it takes to fully dry the wood so it will burn in wood stoves, said the forestry office in the southwestern state of Hesse.</span> <span data-start-time='146438' data-end-time='157750'>German forest rangers also report increased incidents of people gathering fallen wood in forests, often not knowing it is illegal.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5700/A31.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=18983 data-hint-location='100583' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5700/which_of_the_following_is_a_definition_of_the_word_sustainable.wav'>Which of the following is a definition of the word sustainable?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='able to be maintained at a certain rate or level'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5700/able_to_be_maintained_at_a_certain_rate_or_level.wav'><span>able to be maintained at a certain rate or level</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5700/likely_or_liable_to_be_influenced_or_harmed_by_a_particular_thing.wav'><span>likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5700/pleasant_to_taste.wav'><span>pleasant to taste</span></div><div class='choice' 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