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It’s time to rethink what forests are for

Two hundred fifty years ago, healthy forests covered one billion acres of the future United States. The population of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Australian Rainforests Become the First to Emit More Carbon Than They Absorb

A new analysis finds tropical forests in Australia are not taking in enough carbon dioxide to keep up with the emissions from ...

David Teel: Alex Peavey’s cancer fight unites UVA, Virginia Tech, Penn State hoops coaches

Peavey fostered careers in coaching, counseling and mindfulness training that connected him with athletes such as NFL ...

Beyond Click Scores: Causal ML to Find Users Who Change

Most product teams start with correlation. They build a model that predicts who will click, buy, or return, and then they point promotions or notifications at those people. This looks clever on a ...
IEEE

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Random Forest + XGBoost versus Support Vector Machines in Achieving High Accuracy and Precision for Breast Cancer Classification

Abstract: Aim: The aim of the current work is to compare and contrast the performance of classification models in diagnosing breast cancer, i.e., the hybrid model Random Forest + XGBoost vs the ...
Seattle Times

How a plan to save forests from avocados would work

Thousands of acres of forest razed at a breakneck pace. Stolen water and drained aquifers. Abductions and killings. All of this is being driven by the United States’ billion-dollar demand for Mexico’s ...
The New York Times

How a Plan to Save Forests From Avocados Would Work

In Mexico, the avocado industry now faces a choice: Stop deforesting or lose access to the billion-dollar U.S. market. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Photographs by César Rodríguez Emiliano Rodríguez Mega ...
Sportscar365

Random Vandals ‘Working With IMSA and BMW’ to Confirm Entry

Random Vandals Racing is ‘working with IMSA and BMW’ to confirm its entry into the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship next year according to team principal Paul Sparta. The GT World Challenge America ...
Yahoo

29 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia That May Just Break Your Bones if the Sticks and Stones Don’t Work

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IEEE

Generative AI and Ethical Imperative: Confronting Bias in Content Creation using Random Forest

Abstract: Generative AI has completely changed content creation, as it empowered the generation of diverse media that could be in text, images, or even audio. As these technologies roll out in ...
High Country News

Shutdown causes ‘confusion’ across the Forest Service

With the federal government in a shutdown, the Forest Service has paused much of the wildfire preparation and prevention work it does on its 193 million acres of national forest. A Forest Service ...
Los Angeles Times

Here’s what the government shutdown means for wildfires, weather and disaster response

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The shutdown of the U.S. government has brought nonessential work to a halt across the country as thousands of ...