Genetic research could speed the restoration of the American chestnut tree. Plus, "rewilding" small spaces with fast-growing miniforests.

The new generation of “miniforests” pop up everywhere from schoolyards to urban parks to parking lots. Typically ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 square feet (smaller than Miyawaki’s originals), they’ve ...

A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Early Diabetes Prediction in Sierra Leone Using Feature Selection and Soft-Voting Ensemble ...

National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2026 occurs between February 23 and February 27, 2026. Invasive species are ...

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

The court heard Clinton Spiteri was with two others when he visited a rainforest in the Cape York area to steal eight snakes.

Meet the impressive record-breaking species of the animal kingdom, from the the fastest shark, to the hairiest mammal or the ...

Recent cold weather in Florida has caused invasive green iguanas to die and fall from trees as they decay. Iguanas, which are not native to Florida, can become paralyzed when temperatures fall below ...

Abstract: Tree species classification plays a fundamental role in detailed forest resource surveys. The high density point cloud data obtained from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Light Detection and ...

Abstract: In this work, we propose a new image preprocessing technique for more accurate tree species classification, named Pseudo Tree Crown (PTC). We investigated the effectiveness of the PTC ...