There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that ...

Two summers ago, Angus Mossman ’18 spent hours in the Yale-Myers Forest picking up decaying logs and looking for salamanders to conduct research for his senior thesis. Mossman’s research investigated ...

A material that's been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings ...

A Swiss-based research collaboration has increased the efficiency of wood for piezoelectric-based energy harvesting by transforming its structure using a fungus rather than a chemical process. Energy ...

Trump adds tariffs on Canadian lumber and eases domestic timber rules to expand U.S. softwood supply, affecting housing costs and construction markets.

The harvest was increased from 128,000 cords to 140,000 this year and would be increased in 2014 to 160,000 cords. The station reported that the policy change came at the request of the governor’s ...

When infused with a suitable electrolyte, chemically processed wood can function as an energy-harvesting transducer using low-grade (low temperature) heat as the energy source. Although it may seem ...

The Department of Natural Resources "did absolutely the right thing'' by undertaking a deep analysis of state-owned timber resources but didn't go far enough in raising its annual harvest goal, ...