A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

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Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree ...

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their findings reveal that many trees will face conditions far outside what they currently experience—especially under high greenhouse ...

A team at the University of Copenhagen has generated a map of tree cover in 45 African countries down to individual tree crowns by feeding high-resolution satellite imagery into a machine-learning ...

A church in Massachusetts is left dealing with the aftermath of destructive winds after a tree fell through the roof of the building Friday.

Large plants like trees and shrubs not only shade our homes on the days when the sun is most powerful, but they also cool our environment through evapotranspiration.

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The Allen Institute for AI developed a new tool to map tree cover and renewable energy deployment across the world. It uses satellite imagery and AI to generate high-resolution images of Earth.

The authors describe a noninvasive prenatal screening approach involving a survey of sequence variation across the entire fetal exome using cell-free DNA obtained from a maternal blood draw.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists have used high-resolution satellite images to create a map of global canopy heights, and to also develop an AI model that can ...

Researchers studied nearly 80,000 high-resolution satellite photographs of protected forest areas across a range of ecosystems to determine the natural level of tree cover in each.