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. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

HOBART (WLUK) -- The village of Hobart continues to deal with storm damage from nearly two years ago, and with tight budgets, village officials have come up with a creative way to deal with the mess - ...

The global demand for wood-based products is constantly increasing, creating a challenge for the logging industry. In an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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