Researchers at the University of Maryland have made a block of linden wood transparent, which they say will be useful in fancy building materials and in light-based electronics systems. Mat…

Small electromechanical structures that look like trees shaking in a storm could prove to be the next big thing in energy generation. Research announced by the Ohio State University points t…

Touching a piece of paper could one day turn off the lights, send survey results digitally and so much more, thanks to RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology that goes into creati…

A project was carried out to investigate the impact of four different weighing methods on over/under loading of forestry trucks operating in New South Wales.  Researchers from the Universi…

Modern harvesters are technologically sophisticated and, since the 1990s, have been able to automatically measure stem diameters and lengths in real time to improve cutting optimisation…

Caterpillar has developed forestry machines that are controlled remotely. This research should ultimately pave the way for wider applications of the technology in the logging industry in…

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Google has announced plans to work together to make high-resolution satellite data a common tool in managing the world’s natu…

An understanding of how plantation productivity varies spatially is important for forest planning, management and projection of future plantation yields and returns. The 300 Index is a vo…