The 2,000-year-old giant sequoias east of Fresno, Calif., have survived warm spells lasting centuries, but in just 100 years, global warming could snuff them out -- along with many Sierra Nevada species.
Spring burning and thinning pine stands can often breed harmful insect infestations, according to Bitterroot National Forest officials.
Agency foresters are warning private landowners that thinning pine stands or burning spring slash may inadvertently provide breeding grounds for insects, specifically, the pine engraver bark beetle.
British Columbia's pine-beetle devastated forest is belching out enough carbon to equal Canada's average annual forest fire emissions, says a new report from scientists at the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada.
The earth moved today in Hayward as plans for a 6-million dollar pellet plant got the green light.
Julie Pearce was there for the ceremonial groundbreaking for Great Lakes Renewable Energy and has more on what the timber-based project will do for Sawyer County.
IATP's Alexandra Spieldoch and Anne Laure Constantin are in Accra, Ghana for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XII meeting through April 24. They will be blogging periodically on events in Accra.
A federal judge in Baltimore ordered Tyson Foods yesterday to stop using a recent advertising campaign because he says it is misleading consumers into believing that the poultry giant is raising its chickens drug-free.
The U.S. District Court ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed against the company by Salisbury-based Perdue Farms and Sanderson Farms of Mississippi.
