A start-up company is fusing wood with wool to create an environmentally-friendly container for transporting fresh food (or temperature controlled logistics). We’re all familiar with St…

A teenage scientist from Germany has been given a top award thanks to an innovative drone design that uses a different wing lift pattern to traditional planes. It’s based on an historic German …

A research project has tested the ability of probiotics to boost the speed and effectiveness with which trees capture, remove and degrade pollutants from the soil. Researchers from the Univ…

Finnish researchers are testing a process that could result in high quality single-cell protein being made out of sawdust, which can later be developed into fish feed. Finnish sawmills prod…

A widely recognised expert in the areas of forest health and the application of remote sensing technologies, Dr Christine Stone, has been awarded the N.W. Jolly Medal, in recognition of her l…

An industry-led movement is underway to increase the acceptance and use of prefabricated timber building (PTB) systems for large scale projects in Australia. As part of a FWPA-funded proje…

A recently completed analysis of Australia’s national forest industry biosecurity programs has revealed exotic pests are a real and rising risk to Australian plantations and native fores…

A new smartphone app has been developed to predict the moisture content of log piles undergoing infield drying. Inputs in the preliminary version of the app include log type, tree species, lo…