Each year, the agarwood tree, a sought-after source of medicines and perfumes that grows in the rainforests of southwest China, needs to solve a problem. The tree’s fruits mature during the hottest ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: For thousands of years, agarwood has been known as "The Wood of the Gods." First-grade agarwood can cost as much as $100,000 per kilogram, making ...

Scientist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree stump. It is one of over a dozen trees illegally cut for the valuable ...

Agarwood is created when incense trees are cut, which causes the plant to produce a dark resin to prevent infection. The ...

Gold is the priciest rare-earth metal on the planet and forms the backbone of the global economy. But did you know there is a special and rare type of wood that costs a whopping 100 times more ...