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For the past several days, 15 ferocious wildfires have been burning across at least 119,032 acres throughout Northern California. The inferno has claimed the lives of at least 10 people, a number that is expected to grow,...

 Keeping a forest healthy often means deciding what to do tree by tree and acre by acre. That’s easy enough with a square mile of it, but what about a thousand? The Nature Conservancy is working on tools that will...

 Heavy equipment makers Deere & Co., better known as John Deere, have forged a strategic alliance with drone-tech startup Kespry, the companies announced Tuesday in Las Vegas at CONEXPO, an international trade show...

Inhabitat has made a habit of highlighting amazing products which integrate the life cycle of a plant into its design. There's the plantable table that invites nature to dinner, the plantable coffee cup that restores local...

Pakistan's government has announced plans to invest $150 million to revive their forests. Connected to Afghanistan by the Khyber Pass, Khyber Pakhtunkhwai province in particular used to have the most glorious coniferous forests...

Pakistan's government has announced plans to invest $150 million to revive their forests. Connected to Afghanistan by the Khyber Pass, Khyber Pakhtunkhwai province in particular used to have the most glorious coniferous forests...

When most people think of the products created from the forestry industry, it's usually items such as wooden furniture that come to mind. After all, forests are made of trees, and trees = wood, right? Well, yes... but they...

What would you do if all your most cherished possessions suddenly went up in smoke? That’s the situation facing dozens of families in Weed, California right now as a fast-moving wildfire destroyed about 150 buildings in...

The EPA recently released their proposed greenhouse gas performance standards for existing power plants, but these standards will require substantial time and investment to implement fully...

Planning for the National Arboretum actually began over 100 years ago when Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin envisioned an arboretum that would include iconic trees from all over the world...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Washington Post reports: During an April visit to the San Francisco home of billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, who created a political action committee in March to target...

Photo via Shutterstock For those that aren’t very deft at handling chopsticks, now there’s a good reason to opt for the reusable fork instead. In the latest news of ecological disaster in China, the country’s...

Trees, like animals, get tagged with radio chips: the chips help timber companies keep track of their product and fight illegal logging. Unfortunately, metal RFID chips damage the goods — a problem the European research...

It's nothing to sneeze at: Papermaking giant Kimberly-Clark agrees to new initiatives which will make Kleenex and other brands more environmentally responsible.

Photo courtesy of Luc Bollen Housing crisis = fewer houses being built = less wood = better for trees, right? Not so fast says a new report published by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...