People have painted on cave walls and written on clay and wax tablets, papyrus and paper made from wood. Could screens replace paper someday?
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The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing progress made to increase access to affordable, reliable and sustainable domestic energy sources in Kenya.
Attempts to formalise charcoal production have been largely unsuccessful.
Treating wood with bleach can make it transparent.
Wood, a major export of the US, has taken a hit from international tariffs compounded by COVID-19.
Buildings account for a large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Sustainably sourced wood could be a better building material.
A new study takes an innovative approach to reducing fine particle air pollution and spotlights key sources: factories that burn coal and oil, petrochemical plants and burning wood for home heating.
Water and sap inside the wood make mini explosions as they turn into gas and burst out. That’s why damp wood makes the noisiest fires.
CITES’ decision seeks to increase levels of monitoring so that we can be more and better informed about the illegal trade of Mukula and over-harvesting.
The illegal timber trade is a huge global business worth up to US$150 billion yearly. One way to curb it is by convincing consumers in wealthy countries that buying contraband wood products is wrong.
It’s thanks to decomposition brought about by beetles and fungi that we’re not all buried under dead organic matter.
The outcry over the government’s plan to allow wood burning from native forests under the revamped Renewable Energy Target belies the fact that woodchips can be useful and sustainable if harvested responsibly.
Although it may seem counter-intuitive, it would be better if we built buildings from wood than from concrete, brick, aluminium and steel. We use millions of tonnes of these modern materials every year…
A waste product from paper-making could be a safer, greener alternative to using the harmful chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in…
Is there a role for logging in ensuring the future of the world’s tropical forests and their rich diversity of plants and animals? For many this idea is absurd, because timber production achieving conservation…
For many years, individual consumers, industries and governments have all purchased printing and writing paper made with a high recycled-fibre content. Why? Because they believe it is the most responsible…
The issue of firewood management has recently attracted renewed attention in Victoria, where the State Government has changed the regulations on collecting firewood from State Forests. Firewood is cheap…
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Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Associate Professor, Forest Measurement and Management, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Environmental Biologist, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University
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Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Wageningen University
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Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director of Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Postdoctoral Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Bristol
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Professor of Earth and Environment, Florida International University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Professeur d'écologie forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Associate Professor, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne