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Women’s relationship to the environment is shaped by their social position.
The early symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include headaches or dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, tiredness, chest and stomach pains and visual problems.
Cooking with wood and charcoal can raise indoor air pollution to dangerous levels.
More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
About 60% of Mexico’s forests are managed by local communities. A scholar who has studied the forests for 30 years explains how this system protects the forests and the people who oversee them.
Observations collected since the 1980s in the Amazon, Central Africa and Southeast Asia show we are not giving tropical forests enough time to recover after logging.
People have painted on cave walls and written on clay and wax tablets, papyrus and paper made from wood. Could screens replace paper someday?
The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing progress made to increase access to affordable, reliable and sustainable domestic energy sources in Kenya.
Attempts to formalise charcoal production have been largely unsuccessful.
Treating wood with bleach can make it transparent.
Wood, a major export of the US, has taken a hit from international tariffs compounded by COVID-19.
Buildings account for a large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Sustainably sourced wood could be a better building material.
A new study takes an innovative approach to reducing fine particle air pollution and spotlights key sources: factories that burn coal and oil, petrochemical plants and burning wood for home heating.
Water and sap inside the wood make mini explosions as they turn into gas and burst out. That’s why damp wood makes the noisiest fires.
CITES’ decision seeks to increase levels of monitoring so that we can be more and better informed about the illegal trade of Mukula and over-harvesting.
The illegal timber trade is a huge global business worth up to US$150 billion yearly. One way to curb it is by convincing consumers in wealthy countries that buying contraband wood products is wrong.
It’s thanks to decomposition brought about by beetles and fungi that we’re not all buried under dead organic matter.
The outcry over the government’s plan to allow wood burning from native forests under the revamped Renewable Energy Target belies the fact that woodchips can be useful and sustainable if harvested responsibly.
Although it may seem counter-intuitive, it would be better if we built buildings from wood than from concrete, brick, aluminium and steel. We use millions of tonnes of these modern materials every year…
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Associate Professor, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Wageningen University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director of Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, University of Idaho
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Environmental Biologist, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University
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Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Senior Scientist, Centre for International Forestry Research
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Senior Associate, Centre for International Forestry Research
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
