Project Kickstarter aims to turn pavement into forest at Times Square in New York and it has reached its goal of US$25,000 on March 30. According to the plan, a forest will appear “overnight” in June 2016 and last approximately three weeks. Source: Business Insider It will provide a g

Actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation built more than 100 energy-efficient, modern homes in the storm-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina. But some of the wood used is beginning to rot. Source: WWLTV The foundation has filed a lawsuit against the wood manufactu

  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

Residential building approval data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights the dire state of South Australia’s new housing activity.  Source: Timberbiz “While the rest of Australia is experiencing a new home building boom, South Australia is in a new housing recessi

One hundred flooded gum logs from Coffs Coast State Forests have made their way to Sydney’s Royal Easter Show for the popular wood chop event, thanks to a partnership between Forestry Corporation of NSW and the NSW Axemen’s Association. Source: The Coffs Coast Advocate Nor

Plants are growing more quickly than people can cut them down, with fields and forests on the advance across the planet. Source: The Australian An Australian-led analysis of satellite data has found the amount of carbon sequestered in plants has risen by almost four billion tonnes sin

  Log transport company Waimea Contract Carriers, has been placed in voluntary administration owing NZ$14 million, with the possibility of closure not ruled out. Source: The Nelson Mail The firm has 120 staff – 90 in Nelson and 30 in Blenheim – and is one of the south

The owner of a Māori forestry company said that the industry’s growing mechanisation has put forestry contracting businesses under financial stress, in turn putting workers more at risk. Source: Radio New Zealand The push towards increased safety was excellent, but it had meant