The material, named "Super Wood," by creators InventWood, could provide an alternative to using tropical hardwoods from forests at risk of deforestation.

U.S. consumers may unwittingly be fueling illegal logging in Papua New Guinea’s tropical forests simply by shopping at furniture stores and home improvement retailers like The Home Depot. A two ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ecosystem.

The Tropical Audubon ambassador program is free, open to all adults and teaches about preserving South Florida’s fragile ecosystem, including Biscayne Bay.

Sand dunes and tropical hardwood hammocks like this one along the coast of South Florida are home to rare plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. They are also disappearing habitats ...

To combat tropical deforestation, the bill closes loopholes in existing law to more effectively limit the purchase of tropical hardwoods, as well as to require contractors doing business with the ...

It is a tropical hardwood, but generically, people refer to this wood as either blackwood or hongmu. It's unusual, it's in great shape, and I'd say for retail replacement value purposes, somewhere ...

Tropical Forest Products is partnering with Four Corners Building Supply, as an official distributor of Tropical's Black Label brand of premium Ipe, Cumaru, Garapa and other tropical hardwoods ...

The Norwegian firm’s treated softwoods emulate tropical hardwoods, but with fewer environmental downsides ...