We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts A version of this piece was originally published on Aeon as Why we need to think again about ...

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 ...

A newly identified chameleon in Mozambique is a reminder that some of nature's most important discoveries are still hiding in plain sight — or, in this case, high in the treetops. In a May 26 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Amazon biodiversity protection depends on more than keeping forests standing; a forest can remain on the map while losing ecological function, ...

Mr. Ferguson is the author of “The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West.” He wrote from Tucson, Ariz. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...

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, ...

New research from the UBC-based Mother Tree Project is shedding light on how forests respond to harvesting and climate stress, including practices aimed at reducing wildfire risk. The work is ...

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 ...

In spring and summer, the canopies of oak and beech forest gather into layers of green. Leaves flicker, shaping the flow of light and air. The effect is almost effortless, a shaded world held in ...

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 ...