If you liked this story, share it with other people. Wood anatomist José Arlete Camargos identifying cedar wood log in Acre, Brazil. Photo credit: Project NIRS ID. A team of scientists at the ...

Wood species identification using image analysis techniques represents a burgeoning field that integrates advanced imaging technologies with machine learning algorithms to address critical challenges ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

Kristen Finch, a lab technician at the US Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory, is using the Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-TOFMS) machine to determine the full ...

Detailed information about the expansive contents of ESF's wood collection – 40,000 samples that represent 100 years of gathering wood from around the globe – will soon be made available to scientists ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University’s College of Forestry is the new home of a forensics lab that fights the illegal timber trade, a $1 billion annual problem for the U.S. forest products ...

Eleanor Dormontt works for The University of Adelaide and has consulted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Her group has received funding from the International Tropical Timber ...

Singapore, 5 November 2007—Nearly 30 Customs officials and representatives of CITES Management Authorities and forestry agencies from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and China received training in ...

Jian Zhong Wang’s home in the southern Chinese city of Nanning is an inviting place. Light spills in through large bay windows, which offer a stunning view of the garden of thick-stemmed banana plants ...