For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

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A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on ...

In recent years, the growing demand for urban commuting has driven the rapid development of subway systems, which have been evolving toward higher density ...

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