By moving beyond lab tasks to richer, real-world settings, like virtual reality, we can better understand how perception ...

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” ...

A tree can sequester quite a bit of carbon, and forests can sequester and store quite a bit more, but knowing exactly how ...

One person is dead and another is hospitalized in serious condition after an ATV crash in Coeur d’Alene National Forest Saturday night. Deputies from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and ...

One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers ...

For three decades, Vaux’s swifts have returned to Chapman Elementary School, making the Northwest Portland spot their designated roost and offering their nightly swirling performance for thousands of ...

A project to establish small havens of native plant life across the island has borne fruit as it enters its fifth year. The Bermuda Zoological Society said that since the launch of its Micro Forest ...

Miranda Zammarelli hikes into the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in central New Hampshire, pausing when she sees a tree with a pink ribbon wrapped around its trunk. Zammarelli, a behavioral ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. Forest Service is reversing its decades-long ban on federal firefighters wearing masks and providing N95s ...

The U.S. Forest Service has announced it is reversing a ban on federal firefighters wearing masks, and will give crews protective N95s as they battle increasingly intense fires across the nation. For ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million to use technology from AI image startup Black Forest Labs, the latest investment by the social media firm to expand ...

Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ ...