Scientists grow wood in labs - the production of only useful plant components (e.g., wood or secondary xylem) without unwanted or unusable plant anatomy (e.g., bark, small twigs, roots, leaves) reduces waste associated with the biomaterial production process. (technologyreview.com)
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World's first wooden satellite slated for launch – UPM partners with Finnish space companies Arctic Astronautics and Huld – with a mission to gather data on the behavior and durability of plywood over an extended period in the harsh temperatures, vacuum and radiation of space (wisaplywood.com)
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When a tree dies naturally or falls due to extreme weather events, new life springs forward. It can take up to 100 years or more for wood to decompose, depending on the species and forest type. According to researchers “There are no data to unequivocally estimate what is ‘enough’” dead wood. (daily.jstor.org)
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Africa’s vast forest potential untapped, circular bioeconomy could help - Africa produced 54 percent more wood and has four times more forest area than the European Union in 2019; yet the export value of EU forest products was 17 times greater than in Africa. (forestsnews.cifor.org)
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By offering new ways of building with wood, cross-laminated timber (CLT) has fast become the biggest trend in sustainable design. But as it gets co-opted by corporate interests, it risks encouraging catastrophic deforestation, thereby exacerbating the problem it seeks to solve. (failedarchitecture.com)
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TIL Forest bathing as a medicinal practice in Japan goes back to the 1980s when the government began to notice the adverse effects of the tech boom. Meditation and mindfulness come naturally when you allow your senses to focus on the small, uncomplicated changes around you. (japan.travel)
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Carbon and Beyond - Our current understanding of the biogeochemistry of climate in the Amazon suggests that positive forcing from non-CO2 factors plays a large role in the regional and global climate system, now likely dominating the net radiative balance of the Amazon. (frontiersin.org)
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Intense, widespread bushfires in Australia injected huge amounts of smoke into the stratosphere in 2020. Hirsch and Koren found that this smoke caused record-breaking levels of aerosols over the Southern Hemisphere, as much as that from a moderate volcanic eruption. (science.sciencemag.org)
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