Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

As you might assume, papermaking takes a significant toll on the environment. A wide variety of trees are used to make paper, but pine trees are the most common.A single 60-foot-tall pine tree can ...

Weyerhaeuser’s $500 million plant in Arkansas will turn small trees, once bound for paper mills, into engineered lumber.

These properties in just the right combo – 35% less lignin than wild trees, and C/L and S/G ratios that are each 200% higher than wild trees – would make for a sweet spot in paper production.

Have you ever thought about the trees it took to make the toilet paper, paper products and cardboard you use every day? The average couple goes through an entire tree every year just in toilet paper!

Plant-based paper has been used for thousands of years, but exactly how is it created from trees?

Right now, they only have a few samples of paper from their edited trees. Their goal is to produce low-lignin trees for commercial use by 2040. “If we miss a couple deadlines,” Barrangou said ...

You can now find toilet paper made of recycled paper, bamboo or other alternatives to virgin wood fiber, some of which can come from cutting down old trees in critical forests. Estimates suggest ...

Using CRISPR to genetically edit trees could dramatically cut the energy footprint of the paper industry. Making paper is both energy and water intensive, says Jack Wang at North Carolina State ...

The annual practice of butchering trees is in full swing. Tree topping, the practice of cutting large branches back to stubs, compromises them structurally and aesthetically.

In 105 AD, at Lei-Yang, China, Ts'ai Lun stirred together a combination of rags, used fishing nets, hemp and tree bark to make the first real paper the world had ever seen.