Cocoa cultivation in so-called agroforestry systems is widespread in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. There, cocoa plants grow ...

Leaf-cutter ants are considered a problem by cacao farmers in Peru. However, the damage they cause can be limited. This is ...

More efficient use of lumber byproducts leads to more sustainable forest management. That's why Michigan Technological ...

While this research on the removal of microplastics is new, the tree has been used as a tool for water purification for ...

A fast-track method of breeding disease-resistant ash trees has been developed by researchers leading efforts to conserve the ...

Around 1% of the global population has a PhD. It’s the highest academic qualification, the result of years spent on original research. But – and this is a question that many PhD students will have ...

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to ...

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...

Next time you are walking through a swath of trees, whether on a trail near Westfield or in the shady confines of your backyard, I want you to picture this: that the trees all live in their own small ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay witness a massive lake monster finally brought to the surface using a highly creative and unconventional tree rigging method. Trump signs new executive order restricting mail-in ...

In 2002, Crater Lake National Park ecologist Michael Murray thought the park’s majestic whitebark pine trees were as good as gone. An invasive fungus called white pine blister rust was killing the ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...