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Processing wood into paper requires a lot of water, energy, and chemicals. Creapaper mixes in grass, reducing the need for trees—and all the resources necessary to process them. As the backlash ...

Conventional breeding of trees takes time, but CRISPR gene editing should help speed things up. Now, scientists at North Carolina State University have used CRISPR to adjust the genomes of poplar ...

The studio at the Morgan Conservatory, with natural light coming through the garage doors (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) Finished sheets of handmade kozo paper in the conservatory’s ...