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 goes to the Senate.
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 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.
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 ...
The New York Times

Do You Know What Christmas Tree You’re Getting This Year?

With so many varieties sold as Christmas trees, knowing what differentiates a Douglas fir from a Norway spruce is key to shopping for a real tree you’ll love. You’re likely to see more than one ...
suncoastnews

Pasco updates tree ordinance, raising prices for the cutting of trees

LAND O’ LAKES — County commissioners unanimously approved updates to the county's tree preservation ordinance July 15, raising fees developers must pay when removing trees for construction projects.
GitHub

Tree species classification from from airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data using 3D convolutional neural networks

This is a code repository for our paper Tree species classification from airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data using 3D convolutional neural networks During the last two decades, forest monitoring and ...