A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before (<100 km). Using chemical fingerprinting techniques (DART-TOFMS), they ...

Even though logging is prohibited in many of the world's threatened forests, that doesn't stop some companies from logging in those areas anyways, then lying about the origins of the timber. Soon, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazilian researchers have opened a new front in the search for a reliable timber tracking system by using chemical analysis to determine where a ...