If you love the outdoors and love doing physical work to earn your living, then cutting wood and logging may be an ideal business for you. Having a talent for using a chainsaw is not all that's ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

The illegal timber trade costs legal forest products industry actors billions of dollars in lost revenue, so governments and businesses are developing various tools to more effectively track timber.

A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before (<100 km). Using chemical fingerprinting techniques (DART-TOFMS), they ...

Whether used to heat your house or build it, wood is often touted as carbon-neutral, especially by biofuel and lumber companies and even some environmentalists. The logic seems simple enough: Sure, ...