The centre The National Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life was created to ensure Australian design guides and standards remain world class in light of climate change, new engineer…

For 25 years many forests in the western United States have been managed to protect habitat for endangered and threatened spotted owls.  Central to this has been ensuring that these forests m…

Named Incadendron esseri (literally “Esser’s tree of the Inca”), the tree is a newly-identified genus and species commonly found along an ancient Inca path in Peru, the…

When people draw trees, they usually show a trunk, branches and leaves – leaving the roots out of the picture. Similarly, when estimating forest carbon storage, the roots are often not counte…

Scientists from Newcastle University have learned how to ‘fingerprint’ paper and inexpensively authenticate items such as bank notes, passports and legal documents just by taking a pictu…

Traditional nails are wonderful things:  a cheap mass-produced commodity that contributed to the development of the housing industry and, well, hold a lot of things together. But they are a…

The next generation of bridges in country roads could be made of glulam – structural timber made of layers of wood strips bonded with glue. Researchers from the J. Lohr Structures Lab in the USA…