The whir of a disc-saw echoed across Palomar Mountain on a recent December afternoon as loggers cut down hundreds of white fir and incense cedar on a steep hillside dotted with rustic homes. It’s a ...

In order to meet the European Union’s goal of 20% renewables by 2020, some European utility companies are moving away from coal and replacing it with wood pellet fuel. The idea is simple: trees will ...

CAIRO (AP) — Strolling among the stacks of lumber at his sawmill, Ryan Lee points to a section of an ancient cypress tree that was cut down more than a century ago and to heart-pine lumber that still ...

Environmentalists in southern Tasmania have set up a blockade in the Florentine Valley to protest against logging. A six-month moratorium on logging and roading in the area, west of Maydena, ended on ...

A northern spotted owl flies after an elusive mouse jumping off the end of a stick in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Oregon. (Don Ryan/AP) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — The fates of northern ...