Machine learning is an essential component of artificial intelligence. Whether it’s powering recommendation engines, fraud detection systems, self-driving cars, generative AI, or any of the countless ...

All around her, scientists had their eyes set on studying flora and fauna that lived aboveground. But Toby Kiers’s interest always lay in the oft-overlooked biodiversity that existed beneath it. It ...

The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the ...

Believed to be 113, she spent decades building an environmental legacy in India, inspired by her grief at being unable to ...

Across the southeastern United States, a quiet biological upheaval is unfolding as giant reptiles spread into new territory ...

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

The average price of a Christmas tree in New York City is about $119. That’s based on nearly 300 responses from readers who are helping us track the price of pines across the five boroughs this month.

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

The town of Palm Beach has launched a new interactive Historic Resources Map. Users can view historic landmarks, trees, scenic vistas and historical markers. A future update will add designation ...

Big Lonely Doug is a sight to behold—achingly beautiful yet incredibly sad. The thousand-year-old, two-hundred-foot Douglas Fir stands in the midst of a vast clear-cut on the rugged west coast of ...