A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US. Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres, a team from KTH Royal In…

A team of students from the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering recently won two awards at an international design competition for a material composed of ri…

Radiata pine that is easier to process into pulp and bio-fuel is one step closer thanks to a team of Scion biotechnologists working in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison…

Forest roads provide access to logging sites and enable transportation of timber from forest to mills. Efficient forest management and forest industry are impossible without a proper fore…

Steep terrain harvesting can be expensive and have high safety risks. Mechanised ground-based machines are increasingly being used on steeper slopes to decrease harvesting costs and impr…

Fire is an intrinsic element of many forest ecosystems; it shapes their ecological processes, determines species composition and influences landscape structure. However wildfires also…

While the study of wood and health is relatively new in the field of environmental psychology, a clear relationship between the presence of other natural elements has been established in bui…