A study shows that selective-logging leases accounted for the highest rate of deforestation in three provinces studied from 2013 to 2016. While the discovery came as a surprise, the researchers ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study created a machine-learning program that estimated the amount of carbon dioxide already stored, and sequestered annually, by ...

Selective logging--the practice of removing one or two trees and leaving the rest intact--is often considered a sustainable alternative to clear-cutting, in which a large swath of forest is cut down, ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Developed by the University of Sheffield, the technology uses satellite ...

Amazonian forests are unlikely to provide enough timber to meet current demand over the long term, even with the use of improved logging practices. Camille Piponiot, junior scientist from the ...

SATELLITE analysis of the Brazilian rainforest has revealed that logging is causing more than twice as much damage as previously thought. Many ecologists believe that it may be contributing to the ...

Long-term (21—30 years) erosional responses of rainforest terrain in the Upper Segama catchment, Sabah, to selective logging are assessed at slope, small and large catchment scales. In the 0.44 km 2 ...

ASHLAND, Ore. — When Jud Parsons took over management of the family’s forestland on the flanks of Mount Ashland in the 1950s, southern Oregon was in the midst of a timber boom that saw clear-cuts on ...

Conservationists warn that native forest logging in New South Wales’s Glenbog State Forest threatens hollow-dependent wildlife including greater gliders and gang-gang cockatoos. The dispute shows why ...

Amazonian forests are unlikely to provide enough timber to meet current demand over the long term, even with the use of improved logging practices. That is a key finding of a new study. Amazonian ...