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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Saccoccia ’14 jams the end tab of a tape measure into a handy crevasse in the bark of a big holly tree behind Chandler Hall. She walks around the thick trunk, making sure the tape stays at ...

Manhattan’s trees tend to get overshadowed---quite literally in some cases---by skyscrapers that line the city's streets. But they play an essential role in the city's habitat: providing oxygen, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The city Parks Department recently launched its new tree map, which includes unique IDs, species information and maintenance status for 800,000 trees throughout the five ...