Families gathered at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest on Friday to celebrate the Fourth of July in the backyard of one of the ...

The minerals needed for clean energy are driving widespread forest loss across Africa, much of it far beyond the mine itself ...

How out of touch is it for Carl Mumpower to put forth Biltmore Forest as an example of a local community that does not have a homeless problem? We share your inclination to get the whole story. For ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations. By Eric Niiler Reporting from ...

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 ...

In northeastern Gabon, the community of Massaha used participatory mapping to document ancestral villages, sacred sites and traditional land use inside a rainforest slated for industrial logging.

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...