Scientists are trying to tame the chaos of modern artificial intelligence by doing something very old fashioned: drawing a table. Instead of chemical elements, the new chart arranges learning ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

Belinda Medlyn receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the NSW government, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Bush Heritage Australia, Arid Recovery, Australian Forest and Wood ...

North America’s ancient bald cypress forests have told scientists about history’s legendary droughts and wet periods. Now they’re warning us about the future. Drone footage of the Ghost Forest. On a ...

Cases from Nepal suggest that degraded land can regenerate naturally when locals enforce rules such as banning open livestock grazing, restricting access, fining illegal logging and organizing patrols ...

Natural resources remain a powerful driver of economic output for many countries. From oil and gas to minerals and forests, these assets can generate enormous income, but they also create ...

THE student of modern geography by whom this classical work is read for the first time, might well feel that even in the few years, little more than a decade, since the original issue, most of this ...

Sustainability is essentially the ability to endure, for example by exploiting resources in a way that does not deplete their future availability or unduly damage the wider environment. This concept ...

From the tropical rainforests of the far north to the cool temperate eucalypt forests of the south, Australia's trees are dying faster than new saplings are growing.