This is part of a series of stories on the candidates running in the May 19 primary election. Ballots will be mailed to voters April 29. A state senator, a former nominee and perennial candidate, a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The forest floor was nothing but patches of brown. No ferns, no brush, no flowers, ...

Alpine ash forests on mainland Australia have been listed as endangered as they struggle to recover from consecutive bushfires. Scientists hope the added protection will help the trees, but the ...

Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations. By Eric Niiler Reporting from ...

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Forests influence climate not only by storing carbon but by cooling the air, moderating extreme temperatures, and regulating water flows in ways ...

The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the changing dynamics of boreal forests, Min Feng and colleagues analyzed the biome ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more than most people realize. New research shows these tropical strongholds ...