Vessels in a tree’s xylem transport water from the roots to the rest of the plant. Hardwood tree species tend to have large vessels. This gives hardwood floorboards a coarser-grained and less uniform ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...

Empresas Públicas de Medellín, a Colombian utility, leverages technological advancements to enhance safety and efficiency.

Fuel breaks, also known as fire guards, are wide breaks in the landscape. They can be created ahead of time (say, by bulldozing a stretch of land) so they might slow down, or even stop, wildfires ...

Lookout Fire burned most of a forest in Oregon. What's unfolding in the aftermath could inform the future of other forests ...

As extreme heat becomes more common, urban dwellers must relinquish their bias against daytime darkness and embrace the ...

In neighborhoods where tall buildings are banned, we need to plant more trees, which block the sun and cool the air. Few ...

More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single numeric value. The demo uses stochastic gradient descent, one of two ...

Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water ...