When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases. The forests are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, ...

Forests increasingly face pressures and risks such as pests, pollution and forest fires, all of which are aggravated by climate change. Making forests more resilient means helping them adapt to ...

Abstract: The reliability of high-voltage insulators in power transmission systems is often compromised by pollution-induced flashovers, especially in coastal and industrial regions. Traditional ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tropical primary forest loss saw a significant drop in 2025, but the decline likely represents a temporary reprieve driven by favorable weather ...

We usually look to our families of origin to understand ourselves and our unconscious motivations, especially if we’ve been in therapy. Having had two psychoanalyses myself, I’ve been exploring that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new horizon scan identifies ten emerging forces—spanning politics, finance and technology—that are likely to shape forests over the next decade, ...

On a recent morning in central Vermont, where I live, it was raining, and the wood frogs had just begun to chorus. The sap run from the maple trees has started to dwindle as the branches begin to bud ...

Most of Europe’s original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper and timber. The few remaining “old-growth” natural forests are relics of the ...

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...

While most of the world’s 4,000 snake species pose little threat to humans, a handful of giants are powerful enough to take down deer, crocodiles, and even other top predators. From Indian and African ...

The lack of precise, autonomous tools for monitoring and classifying cattle behavior limits farmers’ ability to make proactive and informed decisions regarding grazing and herd management. Currently, ...