The deep, dark forests of northern Europe supplied people with wood, timber and food for millennia. They gave rise to myths, legends and fairy tales, and offered refuge to the persecuted. Over time, ...

On an early morning in northern Sweden, Nila Jannok, a local Sámi reindeer herder, was out walking through one of the country’s last remaining old-growth forests when he stumbled upon something ...

What’s an ally good for? If you’re a large and wealthy country like the United States, or even a small and wealthy country like Sweden, the answer’s not “cash flow.” Sweden pays €3.3 billion ($3.9 ...

Sweden is widely considered to be the world’s greenest country, but its surprisingly lax forestry laws often leave decisions about logging to timber companies, and large swaths of biologically-rich ...

Almost one fourth of Sweden's last unprotected old-growth forest was logged between 2003 and 2019. At this rate, all of these ecologically unique and valuable forests will be lost in about 50 years.

Swedish authorities are urging timber companies to stop logging after wildfires swept through large parts of forested land. "Due to the extreme drought and the extremely high fire risk” in large parts ...

Swedish forestry group SCA said on Wednesday it expected to nearly double the valuation of its forest holdings at the turn of the year after higher deliveries and favourable currency swings lifted ...

Marine Elbakidze, Kjell Andersson, Per Angelstam, Glen W. Armstrong, Robert Axelsson, Frederik Doyon, Martin Hermansson, Jonas Jacobsson and Yurij Pautov This paper analyzes how sustained yield (SY) ...

The spruce bark beetle has already done as much damage to Sweden’s forests so far this year as in all of 2019, when the species ate through record amounts of wood in the largest Nordic economy.

AN interesting historical study by Lars Tirén of forestry conditions in the Degerfors district of othe province of Västerbotten has recently been published (Rep. Swedish Inst. Exp. Forestry, No. 30.