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Lumber Liquidators in class action

02 April 2015
  A Michigan couple is among the plaintiffs in a federal class-action filed against Lumber Liquidators over free home tests the company has provided to customers to see if their wood flooring has high levels of formaldehyde. Source: Detroit Free Press The suit, filed in the US Di
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The power in trees

26 March 2015
In coming years, instead of plugging into a power socket to charge your smartphone’s depleting battery, you could instead be sucking power from a tree. Source: Techly That’s the plan, with Dutch company Plant-e getting closer to utilising the power of living plants. Last month, in the
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Beer in wood clothing

26 March 2015
All safety issues aside, it appears timber and beer goes together in ways a thirsty tree cutter on a hot day never envisioned. Source: Forest Expo NZ, Timberbiz In the context of its participation in a panel on Waste-less Supply at the World Economic Forum in Davos, beer company Carls
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Global softwood trade trends up

26 March 2015
The global trade of softwood lumber has continued to trend upward ever since the global financial crises in 2008. In 2014, export volumes were up 5-8% for a majority of the largest lumber-exporting countries in the world, including Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden and Germany, accordin
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Old young trees

19 March 2015
In the hills of northern Michigan a once-dilapidated warehouse in the town of Copemish brims with thousands of tiny saplings. But these trees are not as young as their sizes would suggest. Source: Scientific American A nonprofit, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, has cloned from tissue 
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Post fire logging study

19 March 2015
Harvesting fire-killed trees is an effective way to reduce woody fuels for up to four decades following wildfire in dry coniferous forests, a US Forest Service study has found. Source: Phys Org The retrospective analysis, among the first to measure the long-term effects of post-fire l
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Lumber Liquidators testing times

19 March 2015
Lumber Liquidators has sent thousands of customers free “idiot-proof” formaldehyde test kits after a “60 Minutes” report accused the company of selling contaminated laminate flooring from China. Source: NBC News Last week the company had directed customers to r
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Cloning 2 millennia old trees

12 March 2015
Tucked away in the rolling hills of northern Michigan in a once-dilapidated warehouse in the town of Copemish now brims with thousands of tiny saplings. But these trees are not as young as their sizes would suggest. Source: American Scientific Nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive,
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PNG forestry funds misappropriated

12 March 2015
In Papua New Guinea questions are being asked about what has happened to a multi-million dollar fund that is supposed to be used to help logging communities. Source: ABC Radio The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum believes the PNG government has stripped some 130 million kina ($AUD60 million dol
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Ta Ann new veneer plant

12 March 2015
Ta Ann Plywood (Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia) is building veneer plant in Bintulu, which will start up the operation in June this year. Source: Lesprom It will use 3000 cubic metres of acacia logs as raw material to produce 1500 cubic metres of veneer. The veneer plant will be built near t
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