STOCKHOLM – Scores of firefighters in central Sweden are battling a wildfire that has burned 150 square kilometers (60 square miles) of forested land and killed at least one person. Officials say ...

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 ...

Comparing the practice of two certification schemes in Swedish forestry, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and a forest owner-dominated competitor, the author explores the capacity of forest ...

Swedish forestry is among the most technically developed in the world; a large part of all forest is used for commercial forestry, which has had a large impact on the structure and function of forest ...

Sweden is so heavily forested that open areas are the exception. It’s the opposite of continental Europe, where Germany’s well-known Black Forest or France’s Bois Des Landes are deviations in the ...

Are soils in Swedish forests depleted in mineral nutrients by forestry and increased tree growth? No, on the contrary, a new study reports that ...

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.

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 has calm in its DNA, but nowhere does it better than Småland. Endless forests, quiet lakes, and winding country roads ...

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 ...