Associated Press: Hopes to reach agreement at a U.N. climate conference in Poland on protecting the world’s forests are fading, prompting environmentalists to appeal Saturday for an extra push for a deal this week. The conference of nearly 190 countries was working on a plan to compensate countries to stop logging and converting forests to farmland, actions that were clearing 32 million acres (13 million hectares) of forests a year up to 2005. Negotiators had hoped a deal on forests would be one …