Democrats asked Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz to explain the agency’s heavy use of glyphosate, alleged to have links to cancer. A pair of Democratic lawmakers is pressing the Forest Service to ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...

Communities living around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap are using a combination of natural and technological solutions to help protect the lake and its surrounding forests from fires. A community savings ...

Apps that record visits are becoming popular, but they come with privacy and accuracy concerns. By Simar Bajaj At your next appointment, your doctor may have a new kind of assistant listening in: ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The forest floor was nothing but patches of brown. No ferns, no brush, no flowers, ...

The Custer-Gallatin National Forest proposed the Bear-Palmer “Forest Health” Project on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park, near Gardiner, Montana. The project would clearcut 824 acres, ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the job market, automating jobs across industries. Therefore, in such a scenario, upskilling oneself in industry-relevant AI skills becomes even more ...

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 ...

With the first phase of the planned demolition of the 153-acre Oak Forest Hospital campus now complete, Cook County is seeking public input on what use the land should be put toward. The Cook County ...

Lake Forest Open Lands Association (LFOLA) will restore a rare ravine-bluff ecosystem along Lake Michigan after securing a $5.75 million federal grant, aiming to stabilize eroding bluffs, protect ...

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 ...