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Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The Christmas tree feels like a tradition from time immemorial—and in some ways it is.

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A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term ...

The world of artificial intelligence is exploding. The industry is becoming more advanced, and that can leave many feeling ...

Reforesting areas of the world comes with major benefits, but adding billions of trees can come with unintended consequences. A new study details how China’s massive regreening effort has altered the ...

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100. When you purchase through links on our ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Credit card debt is a significant issue throughout the United States, but the debt load is not evenly distributed across the ...