In Phuc Trach commune in Ha Tinh province, the craft of carving into tree trunks to find agarwood is often described by locals as “searching for gold.” Thanks to this work, local farmers generate ...

Is it frothy flux, bacterial wet wood, pitch from the pinon pitch mass borer, alcoholic flux, the result of boring insects, a fungal root problem, or the result of stress? All those conditions are ...

SOME 50 million years ago, an ant was foraging on a tree trunk growing on what is now the Baltic coast of Russia. A trickle of resin oozing from the tree trapped the insect, killing it and sealing it ...