As carbon levels rise, soils or plants will absorb more CO2 – but not both, Stanford University study finds. In related news: tackling climate change through US forests; Russia’s carbon-offset forest marketplace; Japan eyes biomass as coal alternative; ancient forests fuelled life as we know it; and a new study on how pandemics can link back to deforestation. 

In other news: Covid-19 drives housing appeal to outlying suburbs; mass timber’s free-form future; Ontario’s wood cluster rebrand; engineered western red cedar product growth; more on North Dakota’s Hill City sawmill closure, and Nova Scotia’s takeover of  Northern Pulp’s Boat Harbour cleanup.

Finally, new research dates wood sculpture as twice as old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor