Pulpwood companies in Indonesia are continuing to plant on degraded peatlands inside their concessions, despite being required to protect and restore these ecosystems, a new report shows. The report ...

A stump from a recently cut spruce tree in Charlotte County. On Crown land, New Brunswick has cut royalties on softwood pulp so low the wood has become cheaper than free to companies that cut it.

Indonesia’s Papua region lost total forest area the size of Manhattan last year, with much of the deforestation attributed to pulpwood and palm oil companies, according to a new report. Using ...

Global demand for wood pellets and pulp is fuelling a resurgence in deforestation in Kalimantan, home to the Indigenous Dayak community and critically-endangered orangutans. The firm responsible has ...

New study concludes that biofuels can be part of climate-energy solution. The debate has been raging for years. Can biofuels, fuels derived from recently alive plant materials (or manure), serve as ...

THE manufacture of paper from wood pulp began on a commercial scale in 1854, as before that date the raw material ordinarily used was cotton and linen rags, esparto grass, straw, and hemp. The first ...

JAKARTA — Industrial plantations of trees to make paper and wood pellets are causing widespread and persistent environmental and social violations in Indonesia, despite claims to the contrary by the ...

From January to November, total industrial roundwood harvest reaches 56.2 million m3, increasing 2% from the previous year.