Have you ever wondered how wood logs are cut or split into pieces before reaching the stores or furniture manufacturers? Some ...

Timber imports by companies operating in the European Union can be traced to logging on Indonesia's Borneo island, a new ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

Whether used to heat your house or build it, wood is often touted as carbon-neutral, especially by biofuel and lumber companies and even some environmentalists. The logic seems simple enough: Sure, ...

The high price of an exotic wood has spurred a rash of timber theft in the forests of Panama, threatening the region’s tropical jungles as traffickers seek to satisfy demand in Asia. Timber from ...

A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before (<100 km). Using chemical fingerprinting techniques (DART-TOFMS), they ...

Up to 64 percent of above-ground biomass in selectively logged forests may consist of dead wood left over from logging damage, argues a paper published this week in Environmental Research Letters. The ...

MANILA, Philippines - Wood producers holding industrial forest management agreements (IFMAs) or timber license agreements (TLAs) are appealing to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ...

By combining chemical and genetic properties of wood, the origin of tropical hardwood can be determined much more accurately.