Canadian Cody Bokshowan, known online as Trustin Timber, creates content about woodworking and life in the wilderness. In one of his videos, he tells the story of how he built his own off-grid cabin ...

Justin Mast’s life was changed by a cyborg plant. A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature when he stumbled upon research about a houseplant wired to a motorized stand.

Between 2001-2019, gold drove more deforestation than any other mineral Criminal gangs now control much of the world's small-scale illicit gold mining Recycled gold masks illegal sources, with ASGM ...

In its first open source research run, it found High or Critical issues in 45% of the projects tested, and in its first month of availability it produced ten pu ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the largest trees in the world and exist only in a specific stretch of coastal habitat in northern ...

In 1620, William Bradford, a Pilgrim and the future governor of Plymouth Colony, stepped off the Mayflower and saw what he described as a “hideous and desolate wilderness.” North America was forested ...

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A recent United Nations report has stated the world will likely overshoot the 1.5 C target by 2030 set out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Tree planting has become one of the most appealing ...

Trees can feel their own shape and use that sense to straighten themselves back up after being bent, using a system that works surprisingly like muscles controlling posture in an animal. A new study ...

A research team from INRAE and the University Clermont Auvergne has shown that trees are capable of correcting a curvature they detect in their stems through a specific biological process. In the ...

Researchers have created an interactive map identifying 1.8 million individual trees in New York City, using a new approach that could optimize the placement of trees for cooling in cities around the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have confirmed Taiwan’s tallest known tree: an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania fir they named “the Heaven Sword of the Da’an River.” A ...