As the global demand for paper rockets, forests in the Asia Pacific are being targeted for paper plantations

Bacteria can be used to produce paper

FINLAND'S forestry and paper industries have attracted world attention but for all the wrong reasons. The country is ravaging its ancient forests with mechanical tree harvesters, according to an

Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.

THE UPHEAVAL in Canada's forestry sector is shaking many of the biggest companies to their roots. Parent companies, strapped for cash, have stopped supporting subsidiaries that are making losses

A Pune based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.

If paper and power prices included ecological costs, the consumer would have to pay at least 60 per cent more for them than he pays today