Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength and lightweight composition, two properties that make it ideal for building model structures and airplanes. Researchers from the US and China have ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – An essential lumber product tucked inside the blades of sleek massive wind turbines is experiencing spot shortages of supply: Balsa wood. The lightweight wood is used to build sandwich ...

I shouldn’t have been surprised. The East Tennessee region where he made his name is notoriously insular, with a history of bootlegging and moonshiners who took great pains to hide themselves from ...

Wind turbine blades can be truly enormous, reaching lengths of up to 107 m (351 ft). They often incorporate lightweight balsa wood, which may soon be easier than ever to reclaim for recycling when the ...

This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for whoever wants to have some fun with a balsa wood rc plane like this. We have been ...

This time we're going to modify our last glider to make it RC, with a micro motor so we can have a lot more fun flying for up ...

Meet Joe Macken, the genius who’s spent 21 years building an insane 3D model of New York City (NYC) out of balsa wood. This New Yorker’s dedication is next level- he’s got nearly a million buildings ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The rollout of new wind power projects could be delayed by a shortage of balsa wood. Better known for its use in ...

Seizures of illegally harvested balsa wood more than doubled in Ecuador between 2019 and 2020. Timber mafias operating along Ecuador’s borders with Peru and Colombia have been profiting from the ...

IN LATE 2019 loggers started arriving in Ewegono, a village of nine indigenous Waorani families on the Curaray river in the Ecuadorean Amazon. They were looking for balsa, a fast-growing species of ...