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 ...

B.C. plans to log old-growth forest, threatening endangered southern mountain caribou habitat, despite commitments to conserve these forests, warns a new report. The report, from three B.C.

A controversial forest management project in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley recently gained approval from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Called the Late Mungers project, the BLM says it’s ...

Justin Higginbottom / JPR News A logging company has canceled a proposed road within a Bureau of Land Management project in Josephine County. Activists had claimed that construction of the route ...

HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of police and soldiers raided illegal logging camps on the southern edge of Mexico City Wednesday and seized four illegal sawmills, sparking the anger of local ...

A Leicester man was arrested Monday, Oct. 29, by Buncombe County Sheriff’s deputies in a case of illegally logging timber on 10 acres of conservation land in the Sandy Mush area. Scott Bobby Turner, ...

Southern Illinoisan reporters Gabriel Neely-Streit, Molly Parker, Isaac Smith and Marilyn Halstead, with local news editor Alee Quick, recap the last week in Southern Illinois news. Join us every ...