Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood. As any local knows ...

The Financial Times reported that the British oilfield engineering and services firm Wood Group agreed to extend its deadline for talking with Dubai's Sidara about a potential takeover after an ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

Rather than hiding chocolate eggs around the garden or home, these Easter hunt tokens – often made from wood – can be hidden instead ... and can be brought out year-after-year, like Easter trees, to ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

In each experiment, tree species were planted in blocks, creating a mosaic of forest patches of the same age and species. Some experiments were established up to 60 years ago. Tree heights were ...

And in removing those trees, we grind up the trees and we make mulch, wood chips out of them," explained Matthew Morrison, an urban forester at the National Mall and Memorial Parks. “So ...

tend to focus on characters with a strong semantic connection to trees and wood. Japanese elementary school students learn the kanji 木, which means “tree” or the material “wood,” in the ...

Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack it to sabotage ...