Cabinet maker William Monroe of Concord, Massachusetts made the first American wood pencils in 1812. And why are most pencils ...

The ancient beech forests on the Bettlachstock in the ... his horn-rimmed glasses raised to his forehead – has adorned the Swiss ten-franc note since 1997. “A… Read more: Le Corbusier ...

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One Swiss chef will stop at nothing to make sure he sources the best types of wood shavings to give his smoked fish a very distinctive flavour. From visiting wood workshops to creating a type of ...

The Sarco machine in the Swiss wood which was later used by a 64-year-old American woman. (Photo by Handout / THE LAST RESORT / AFP). The Last Resort said the woman died “almost immediately”.

"It’s a good time to trim deciduous hedges - like box, yew, hawthorn, hornbean and beech - plus hedge trimmers are a great upper body workout! Make leafmould - gather up all the fallen leaves ...

‘Most lovely of all’, the stately beech is our tallest native tree and creates a shaded environment that few plants can survive. If oak is the hail-fellow king of the English wood, beech is the ice ...

Wood ants play an ecologically dominant and conspicuous role in temperate boreal forests, making a keystone contribution to woodland ecosystem functions and processes. Wood ant taxonomy and global ...