Ipe, a Brazilian walnut hardwood with a rich base color of java brown, is becoming a popular hardwood for decks. Brian Rock noticed the ipe (pronounced “ee-pay”) boards he ordered for his deck ...

Three-quarters of a highly sought-after Brazilian hardwood that entered the supply chain between 2009 and 2019 was probably harvested illegally, researchers in Sweden and Brazil conclude in an ...

Logging to meet demand for the tropical hardwood ipê coincides with hotspots of illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the source of 96% of the ipê used worldwide, a report shows.