Iowa House votes to ban kratom, classify it as a controlled substance

Iowa House lawmakers passed a bill making the plant-based stimulant kratom a Schedule I controlled substance. The bill now ...
Barchart on MSN

Is Dollar Tree stock a recession-proof winner or a ticking time bomb?

Dollar Tree shares are inching up this morning after the discount retailer recorded its 20th consecutive year of positive ...
People of Print

Mappa Animalia: Jeppe Ringsted Turns Evolutionary Trees into Cartographic Landscapes

Copenhagen-based artist Jeppe Knudsen Ringsted merges science, design and cartography in Mappa Animalia, a visual project ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New, Endemic Tree Species Discovered in an Indigenous Area is Already Threatened

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the ...

New Panama tree species identified after 25 years is already endangered

In 2000, a group of STRI botanists collected samples of all the plants from the genus Clusia they could find in Panama to ...

Meet 'Tous'—an entirely new genus of mammal

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of ...

Meet ‘Tous’ – an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.
The New York Times

Starting at Harvard and Falling for Your First Tree

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity. Each Harvard University freshman in the “Tree” seminar must choose a single ...
IEEE

ResTreeNet: A Height-Aware LiDAR Tree Classification Model With Explainable AI for Forestry Applications

Abstract: Tree species classification plays a crucial role in forest management, biodiversity conservation, and ecological monitoring. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, capturing highly ...