If wood moisture issues come up in your shop, you are not alone. Experts at the Architectural Woodwork Institute say that this time of year, when heating season begins, inquiries pour in on wood ...

I am a woodworker, and as a woodworker, I live by a certain set of norms which dictate that I be accurate, but not ridiculously accurate. After all, wood changes size all of the time, so there is a ...

One of the most commonly accepted methods of analyzing a product’s environmental impacts is life cycle assessment. An LCA is a comprehensive measure of the total environmental impact of a product, ...

Foresters and researchers are using sound to look inside living trees. A new study presents methods for use of sonic tomography, which measures wood decay by sending sound waves through tree trunks.

Researchers want to transform the natural and abundant resource wood into useful materials, and central to that is a molecular machine found in fungi that decomposes the complex raw material into its ...

SAO PAULO, June 17 (UPI) --How sustainable is Neapolitan pizza? Or that new Brazilian steakhouse? Recently, a team of researchers set out to measure the environmental impact of wood-fired ovens and ...

TNO is developing a measurement method that maps wood smoke at neighbourhood level and links it to health. There is a need for this, as wood smoke may have a negative impact on health. Municipalities ...