The Economist

How the biggest trees survive droughts

By virtue of their enormous size, the tallest 1% of trees store over half of the carbon in Earth’s forests. The assumption ...

How tall and short trees can coexist in old growth forests

Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays ...
Frontiers

Wood Formation Dynamics and Tree Acclimation in Response to Climate and Anthropogenic Stressors

Wood formation research lies at the intersection of plant physiology, ecology, and environmental sciences. In a rapidly ...

The Web Is Growing A Second Layer – Almost A Third Head

Google shipped two new specs weeks apart. Here's what OKF and ARD actually do, how they differ from LLMs.txt and MCP, and ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...