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 ...

New research from N.C. State suggests harvesting wood debris after logging doesn't have a major impact on small animal populations. Wood pellets made from scraps left behind after clear-cutting are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the invention of mechanical harvesting machinery in the later 19th century, harvesting grain in the region was often communal. Reports have more than a hundred harvesters in a single gang ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...