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A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22112025/tropical-forest-fund-protects-trees/

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

"Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment

Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end
A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century.

0 days since I've stepped on a nail, in a forest, in new shoes.
Yes, again. The previous shoes got a similar treatment. It didn't reach the feet.

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/malaysian-companies-dominate-png-forest-clearance-permits-report/

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report
Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the world, hosting an estimated 5-8% of all species. The country also has one of the world’s highest rates of communal land ownership, with around 97% of land legally recognized as being customary tenure. Despite the ecological […]

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/pulp-giant-rge-admits-possible-deforestation-breach-in-bornean-wildlife-habitat/

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat
JAKARTA — One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation commitment in its supply chain, raising questions about the company’s attempt to regain sustainability certification under the Forest Stewardship Council. A new report by U.S.-based campaign group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) alleges that Singapore-based […]

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/adob

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Hunting Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter in Lyman-$\alpha$ Forest
Akash Kumar Saha, Abhijeet Singh, Priyank Parashari, Ranjan Laha

"African forest hornbills gain new protections from unsustainable trade"
#Birds #Animals

African forest hornbills gain new protections from unsustainable trade
Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently unrestricted trade in all seven species of African forest hornbills. Eight West and Central African countries had tabled the proposal at the ongoing summit of CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, taking place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It calls for […]

#ThrowbackThursday Platinum printing session at the now defunkt Oregon College of Art and Craft. The pictures are from an unforgettable winter hike in the Eagle Creek valley, just a few days prior (and 6 months before a wild fire consumed the entire valley)...
(Also see my prev. message for my new darkroom setup :)

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/amazon-rainforest-hits-record-carbon-emissions-from-2024-forest-fires/

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires
In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven forest degradation released an estimated 791 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2024, a sevenfold increase compared with the previous two years. The […]

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new
[1/1]:
- RFOD: Random Forest-based Outlier Detection for Tabular Data
Yihao Ang, Peicheng Yao, Yifan Bao, Yushuo Feng, Qiang Huang, Anthony K. H. Tung, Zhiyong Huang

This week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
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Welcome This week feels like work and wonder at once. Night comes early in the north and the Geminids begin to stitch bright threads across the cold sky. Far south, heat lifts and cicadas test their summer chorus. In that split screen of seasons, our stories settle on two steady

Since it got cold I haven't been too brave about going out and between that trip to the beach, a breakthrough in another project I've been working on for 8 months, and new project that's making me revive even more old projects my #photography has been slowing down: this trail in Shindagin Hollow skirts the side of a steep and deep gorge

"Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires"
#AmazonRainforest #Trees #Environment

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires
In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven forest degradation released an estimated 791 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2024, a sevenfold increase compared with the previous two years. The […]

Cocycle weighted infinitesimal bialgebras and pre-Lie algebras on rooted trees
Lo\"ic Foissy (LMPA), Yunzhou Xie (NJUST), Dawei Zhang (NJUST), Yi Zhang (NJUST)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12239

Cocycle weighted infinitesimal bialgebras and pre-Lie algebras on rooted trees
The concept of weighted infinitesimal bialgebras provides an algebraic framework for understanding the non-homogeneous associative Yang-Baxter equation. In this paper, we endow the space of decorated planar rooted forests with a two-parameters family of coproducts, making it into a weighted infinitesimal bialgebra. A combinatorial characterization of the coproducts is given via the notion of forest biideals. Furthermore, by constructing a bilinear symmetric form and introducing a new grafting o…

Good lord, this new Rosalía album is powerful magic.
#music

"Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment

Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30
Tropical countries from Cameroon to Colombia could earn tens of millions of dollars a year under a novel approach to protecting the world's rainforests being launched at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CG/new
[1/1]:
- Outerplanar and Forest Storyplans
Ji\v{r}\'i Fiala, Oksana Firman, Giuseppe Liotta, Alexander Wolff, Johannes Zink

I lose some #followers and meet some new ones, so hi to everyone who just #followed me!
I’m in love with #Linux, especially

Apple partners with The Conservation Fund to protect and restore California redwood forest, part of its carbon neutral goal by 2030. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Apple launches new project to protect and restore California redwood forest
Apple announces a new investment in a working redwood forest in California, in collaboration with The Conservation Fund.

Forest tree species classification and entropy-derived uncertainty mapping using extreme gradient boosting and Sentinel-1/2 data
Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Fan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18228

Forest tree species classification and entropy-derived uncertainty mapping using extreme gradient boosting and Sentinel-1/2 data
We present a new 10-meter map of dominant tree species in Swedish forests accompanied by pixel-level uncertainty estimates. The tree species classification is based on spatiotemporal metrics derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data, combined with field observations from the Swedish National Forest Inventory. We apply an extreme gradient boosting model with Bayesian optimization to relate field observations to satellite-derived features and generate the final species map. Classifica…

"China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990"
#China #Environment #Trees

China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990

Out-of-bag prediction balls for random forests in metric spaces
Diego Serrano, Eduardo Garc\'ia-Portugu\'es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04299 https://

Out-of-bag prediction balls for random forests in metric spaces
Statistical methods for metric spaces provide a general and versatile framework for analyzing complex data types. We introduce a novel approach for constructing confidence regions around new predictions from any bagged regression algorithm with metric-space-valued responses. This includes the recent extensions of random forests for metric responses: Fréchet random forests (Capitaine et al., 2024), random forest weighted local constant Fréchet regression (Qiu et al., 2024), and metric random f…

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Scalable deep fusion of spaceborne lidar and synthetic aperture radar for global forest structura...
Tiago de Conto, John Armston, Ralph Dubayah

Small-scale Lyman alpha forest cosmology with PRIYA: Constraints from XQ100 and KODIAQ-SQUAD one-dimensional flux power spectra
Ming-Feng Ho, Mahdi Qezlou, Simeon Bird, Yanhui Yang, Camille Avestruz, M. A. Fernandez, Vid Ir\v{s}i\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18271

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk #environment

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk
New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas. The chance of large-scale flooding in a specific catchment area can increase by as much as 700% if widespread deforestation has occurred.

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Hey y'all, just a little reminder for those who already know and a heads‑up for anyone new, I’m non‑binary and out here living my best self!
#LGBTQIA #NonBinary

Silicon pinhole strip defects and their impact on ATLAS Inner Tracker HV current measurement
Anthony Affolder, Kirsten Affolder, Emily Duden, Vitaliy Fadeyev, Cole Helling, David Lynn, Forest Martinez-Mckinney, Peter Phillips, Luise Poley, Tate Sakaguchi, Abdullah Sayed, Stefania Stucci, Alex Wang, Marcus Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26…

Silicon pinhole strip defects and their impact on ATLAS Inner Tracker HV current measurement
In preparation for the High-Luminsoity LHC (HL-LHC), the ATLAS detector will undergo major detector upgrades, including the replacement of the current Inner Detector with the new all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk). The ITk consists of a pixel detector close to the beamline surrounded by a large-area strip detector. During detector production, the electrical properties of silicon sensors and readout electronics must be characterized through a series of quality control (QC) and quality assurance tes…

Only **you** can prevent forest fires...
#noxp #nodebb #fediverse #fediversemeta

Ordered Leaf Attachment (OLA) Vectors can Identify Reticulation Events even in Multifurcated Trees
Alexey Markin, Tavis K. Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16405 https://

Ordered Leaf Attachment (OLA) Vectors can Identify Reticulation Events even in Multifurcated Trees
Recently, a new vector encoding, Ordered Leaf Attachment (OLA), was introduced that represents $n$-leaf phylogenetic trees as $n-1$ length integer vectors by recording the placement location of each leaf. Both encoding and decoding of trees run in linear time and depend on a fixed ordering of the leaves. Here, we investigate the connection between OLA vectors and the maximum acyclic agreement forest (MAAF) problem. A MAAF represents an optimal breakdown of $k$ trees into reticulation-free subtr…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Richard Wagner, New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta:
🎵 Siegfried, WWV 86C: Forest Murmurs
#RichardWagner #NewYorkPhilharmonic #ZubinMehta
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AvNtWu8daCzQ2h5MsgDJM

"Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes | The Optimist Daily
Brazil recognizes 10 new Indigenous territories during COP30, strengthening land rights and offering hope for forest protection amid rising tensions.

"Apple launches new project to protect and restore California redwood forest"
#Apple #US #USA #America

Apple launches new project to protect and restore California redwood forest
Apple announces a new investment in a working redwood forest in California, in collaboration with The Conservation Fund.