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January 15, 2025
Walnut Trees’ 40-Million-Year-Old Secret: How They Switch Genders Every Season
UC Davis graduate student Jeffrey Groh has discovered how walnut trees are able to produce flowers of different sexes at different times in the same season. Pictured, Groh with a California black walnut tree on the UC Davis campus. Credit: Sasha Bakhter, College of Biological Sciences
by Andy Fell, University of California - Davis, January 5, 2025
January 15, 2025
B.C. researchers aim to make the perfect T-shirt — from lumber
The bid to locally produce a sustainable high-end textile is still in its early stages, but researchers hope to have enough material to create prototypes within a year.
by Stefan Labbé, Jan 9, 2025
Picture: Precursor materials are prepared to make a cellulose film in UBC's researcher Feng Jiang's lab.
January 15, 2025
Forests may be more resilient to climate change than previously thought: Study
An international team of researchers studied the combined effects of rising temperatures and increased nitrogen in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels
by Ammara Khan, University of Toronto News, Jan 6, 2025
January 10, 2025
In an Emergency, Especially in Wildfires, Neighbours Are Your Biggest Asset
As the unbelievable devastation of the LA wildfires continues to threaten lives and livelihoods, CFO is with those communities in our thoughts and prayers. In Canada CFO members play an essential role in keeping communities safe from wildfire risks because private forest lands neighbour our towns and cities and often provide a buffer to provincially managed forests, but the federal government needs to act now as Andrew de Vries told the Senate in November.
by Canadian Forest Owners, which NBFWO is a member of, Jan 9, 2025
