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by Steve Strauss, Oregon State University The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an introduced fungus from Asia called chestnut blight. A majestic forest tree, an American chestnut was typically 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 meters) in height, but could grow …

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Read the full story at Inside Climate News. Faced with a looming mine on the edge of the Okefenokee, The Conservation Fund spent years negotiating and fundraising for a $60 million purchase few thought possible.

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Read the full story in Chemical & Engineering News. Generative artificial intelligence has worsened a long-standing publish-or-perish problem in the academic community by making scientific paper fabrication trivially cheap and fast. AI detection systems catch what they can, but their creators openly admit that the race against improving AI models is one they may not …

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Read the full story at Librarian.net. One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive …

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Read the full story at Ars Technica. For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at …

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