ProPopulus Team A team of Swedish researchers is proposing poplar as an alternative to cotton. Their research aims at replacing cotton fibre for textiles with fibre for textiles from fast-growing poplars. Today, worldwide there are 34.5 million hectares of arable land fit for food crops currently devoted to cotton cultivation. By substituting cotton fibres with…
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ProPopulus Team As the world moves towards a cleaner green bioeconomy, new research on the uses of poplar bark and leaves, and its potential phytochemicals as value-added co-products are being developed through biorefinery. Recently a team of researchers led by the biochemistry professor John Ralph PhD’82, based in the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC),…
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ProPopulus Team The possibilities that wood offers never cease to amaze. It is a renewable, recyclable and sustainable material that not only has many and varied industrial applications, from making furniture to building wind towers and skyscrapers, including packaging, textiles, and clean energy, but it also helps in the challenges posed by climate change through…
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ProPopulus Team Tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia will stop absorbing carbon dioxide of the atmosphere by 2035, according to a new research published by Nature on March 4th, that analysed 565 forests over the last 30 years. The conclusion is nothing but saddening and alarming. Until now, scientists had developed their climate models under…
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ProPopulus Team Although poplar cultivation is a strategic sector for the forest-wood supply chain in Italy and represents the most significant internal source for primary wood transformation, it occupies a very small portion of the national area (less than 1%) compared to that of forests. As part of the support strategies for the supply of…
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Propopulus Team In collaboration with our sponsors France Bois Forêt and Garnica, amongst others, the French National Poplar Council (CNP) has launched a research programme in France to make annual mappings of poplar plantations using satellite remote sensing. It will also monitorthe status and progress exhaustively. Currently, poplar plantations in France are distributed in small…
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Developing a society based on moderation, intelligence, sharing, and healthy environments without compromising the future, requires rising awareness about how our collective and individual behavior impacts Nature and why it is important to reduce our society’s dependence on unsustainable resources to tackle issues such as climate change and pollution. Making valuable scientific information accessible to…
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The Argentinian chapter of the non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest research scientists IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) will organize the Seventh International Poplar Symposium (IPS VII) in Buenos Aires, from 28th October to 4th November 2018 under the title “New Bio-economies: Exploring the Potential Role of Salicaceae”. Two field trips organized to…
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From September 18th to 21st Bucharest will host the Forest Science for a Sustainable Forestry and Human Wellbeing in a Changing World International Scientific Conference, an open scientific event dedicated to the anniversary of 85 years of activity in forestry research of the National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry “Marin Drăcea”. The conference…
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