A shared map can help connect available food with people who can actually use it.

The recently launched Treepedia from the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) visualizes the “green canopy” of street trees in cities around the world. Harnessing the ...

AI has dominated the headlines lately — and not necessarily in a good way. From AI bot ChatGPT helping college students plagiarize essays to tools like Dall-E potentially spreading misinformation, ...

Instead of expensive and time-consuming human surveys, these maps are made by AI–and could help cities figure out where they most need to plant trees. In San Francisco, it took a team of arborists a ...

image: Upper figure: The first global map of species richness of trees, as produced by the new model. It illustrates the number of tree species that can be expected within areas of one hectare. The ...

Biodiversity is one of Earth's most precious resources. However, for most places in the world, scientists only have a tiny picture of what this diversity actually is. Researchers at the German Centre ...

Researchers have succeeded in constructing, from scattered data, a world map of the diversity of tree species. Climate plays a central role for its global distribution; however, the number of species ...