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lol that's quite the caption https://gothamist.com/news/staten-islands-lost-city-of-wild-beaches-is-a-spiritual-refuge-for-new-yorkers

Staten Island's 'lost city' of wild beaches is a spiritual refuge for New Yorkers
Many of the borough's beaches are secluded and lack lifeguards. For many visitors, that’s key to their appeal.

Los Padres National Forest Faces New Threat with Rollback of ‘Roadless Rules’

The Trump Administration’s Plan Would Open 600,000 Acres to Commercial Logging, Possible Infrastructure Development
https://www.independent.com/2025/06/2…

Los Padres National Forest Faces New Threat with Rollback of ‘Roadless Rules’
The Trump administration’s plan would open 600,000 acres of roadless areas to commercial logging, vegetation management, and possible infrastructure development.

📉 Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon
#trees

Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon
Eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest boasts some of the state's oldest trees, including pine and larch that live more than 500 years. But many of those ancient trees are dying at an alarming rate, a new analysis shows.

Replaced article(s) found for hep-th. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new
[2/3]:
- Mock modularity at work, or black holes in a forest
Sergei Alexandrov

Of lynxes and limetrees: New Insights into the Historical Ecology of the Bavarian Forest on the Threshold of Modernity
Bettina Haas, Markus Gerstmeier, Ricarda Huter, Malte Rehbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02512

Of lynxes and limetrees: New Insights into the Historical Ecology of the Bavarian Forest on the Threshold of Modernity
This study explores the historical ecology of the Bavarian Forest at the threshold of modernity through the lens of a large-scale biodiversity survey conducted in 1845 across the Kingdom of Bavaria. Focusing on the Forestry Office of Zwiesel, the article analyses archival records that document the distribution of animal and tree species during a period of administrative rationalisation and early scientific systematisation. These sources include official correspondence, detailed species inventor…

Debates over biological control are resurfacing
as U.S. entomologists seek to do something about a new pest in their cross hairs:
the spotted lanternfly,
a winged insect that feasts on vineyard vines, fruit and forest trees.
Baby lanternflies start to hatch in May and begin to grow into adults over the summer.
Come July, millions of people on the East Coast, from New York to Virginia, will start to see lanternflies overhead and on the ground.
Some models p…

Opinion | Squashing Spotted Lanternflies Will Get Us Only So Far. We Need Wasps.
Is it wise to use one organism to combat another invasive one?

"The National Park Service announced Tuesday the rollout of a new annual body-dumping pass for use on federal lands" #Burgum #TheOnion

Social engineering and Signal chats led to new Russian malware attacks, Ukraine says https://therecord.media/ukraine-new-russian-malware-social-engineering-signal-chats

Building Forest Inventories with Autonomous Legged Robots -- System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead
Mat\'ias Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, Jonas Frey, Leonard Frei{\ss}muth, Haedam Oh, Benoit Casseau, Marco Hutter, Maurice Fallon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20315

Building Forest Inventories with Autonomous Legged Robots -- System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead
Legged robots are increasingly being adopted in industries such as oil, gas, mining, nuclear, and agriculture. However, new challenges exist when moving into natural, less-structured environments, such as forestry applications. This paper presents a prototype system for autonomous, under-canopy forest inventory with legged platforms. Motivated by the robustness and mobility of modern legged robots, we introduce a system architecture which enabled a quadruped platform to autonomously navigate an…

Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is no longer "in the top 10 semiconductor companies" and it is "too late" to catch up to Nvidia (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/…

Intel’s CEO: ‘We are not in the top 10’ of leading chip companies
"I think is too late for us" to catch up with Nvidia's position in AI, said Lip-Bu Tan. But he said Intel has other opportunities in the field.

Readwise würfelte mir heute dieses Zitat in die Wiedervorlage und ich musste direkt nachsehen, wann der Artikel geschrieben wurde. 2014. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich 6 Jahre später alles noch viel schlimmer entwickeln würde?
https://www.theawl.com/2014/10/shot-through-the-…

New early access #Patreon video https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-if-forest-132781228
Join the patreon or buy the video for $3

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest
Fei Wu, Danning Sui, Thomas Thiery, Mallesh Pai

A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

How Broadway is embracing large-scale, high-resolution videos and projectors as an integrated narrative tool aided by AI, as some creatives worry about overuse (Michael Paulson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/theater/broadway-ai-s…

On Broadway, A.I. and High-Tech Storytelling Is Having a Moment
Videos and projections depicting an A.I.-generated actor, the digital memories of robots, a redwood forest and more: High-tech storytelling is having a moment.

A new Dune grid for scalable dynamic adaptivity based on the p4est software library
Carsten Burstedde, Mikhail Kirilin, Robert Kl\"ofkorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11386

A new Dune grid for scalable dynamic adaptivity based on the p4est software library
In this work we extend the Dune solver library with another grid interface to the open-source p4est software. While Dune already supports about a dozen different mesh implementations through its mesh interface Dune-Grid, we undertake this new coupling effort in order to inherit p4est's practically unlimited MPI scalability as well as its relatively thin data structures, and its native support for multi-block (forest) mesh topologies in both 2D and 3D. The presented implementation is compared …

"We reach out, arms in exasperation, in tired anxiety, in worry, in unknowing—and God hands us back a feast. God plants flowers in our open palms."
—Caroline Blosser ’24 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

I found this a nice and interesting video essay about the Dark Forest hypothesis in sci-fi literature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SvgT9Lc2M
I usually don't dare clicking on new recommended channels on Youtube because I don't know if that's some crap…

A new trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest near where I live
#photo #photography #caroline #forest

Pan-tropical plant functional trait variation from space
David Schimel, Andres Baresch, Adam Chlus, Phil Townsend, Fabian Schneider, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Ben Poulter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19199

Pan-tropical plant functional trait variation from space
Plant functional trait variation in tropical forests is central to predicting ecosystem responses to change. Informaiton on traits is limited relative to the diversity of climate, landforms, disturbance regimes and species present. These traits are central to modeled predictions of ecosystem change. We used a new spaceborne imagining spectrometer from the Italian Space Agency to sample roughly 1% of the tropical moist forest biome for traits along the Leaf Economics Spectrum, as well as data to…