Predicted changes to Australia’s climate over the next one to three decades will affect management strategies for Australia’s Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus radiata plantations. Forecas…

A team of researchers, led by Professor Charles E. Wyman, at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a versatile, relatively non-tox…

Under a rapidly warming climate, a critical management issue in semiarid forests of western North America is how to increase forest resilience to wildfire.  Researchers from the Universit…

The emerald ash borer has destroyed tens of millions of ash trees in the U.S. since the beetle’s discovery in 2002 in Detroit.  Current treatment standards require ash firewood to be heated to…

Trees are nature’s answer to diminishing air pollution, as well as reducing respiratory problems for the human population, according to US Forest Service scientists and collabora…

A British paper and technical fibres company and a Swedish forestry giant have unveiled a sustainable alternative to plastic which they claim is strong enough to carry the weight of an adult a…

Wood has a part to play in wind energy too. In wind farms across North America and Europe, sleek turbines equipped with state-of-the-art technology convert wind energy into electric power. B…