Justin Mast’s life was changed by a cyborg plant. A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature when he stumbled upon research about a houseplant wired to a motorized stand.

Between 2001-2019, gold drove more deforestation than any other mineral Criminal gangs now control much of the world's small-scale illicit gold mining Recycled gold masks illegal sources, with ASGM ...

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A recent United Nations report has stated the world will likely overshoot the 1.5 C target by 2030 set out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Tree planting has become one of the most appealing ...

As many as 100 million elm trees died from Dutch elm disease in the span of 50 years. Now, decades of careful breeding may help them return. In a Vermont field, a team tends to young elm trees.

A research team from INRAE and the University Clermont Auvergne has shown that trees are capable of correcting a curvature they detect in their stems through a specific biological process. In the ...

In Europe, trees are increasingly dying prematurely. A new study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) on French forests now shows that it is not only drought ...

Burning trees to help other trees grow? It sounds counterintuitive, but using biochar to improve soil conditions is a practice that dates back centuries. On Arbor Day 2025, Cincinnati Mayor Aftab ...

Abstract: This paper proposes to construct binary array codes from nonbinary codes by binary matrix dispersion. Thanks to their low-density and quasi-cyclic generator matrices, these binary dispersed ...

Using cutting-edge whole-genome sequencing, researchers from UCLA and The Nature Conservancy are identifying oak populations that are most naturally resistant to climate change to inform conservation ...

Q. I get a detailed revenue transaction export from the client, and then I get it again, revised, usually after I’ve already filtered, sorted, and documented my selections. I’m tired of reapplying ...