Monitoring forest health typically relies on remote sensing tools such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, and ...

Former science teacher John Kolojejchick hasn't been spending his retirement in a rocking chair. Instead, over the last 16 years, he and a team of volunteers have been hunting down abandoned oil and ...

Earlier this week, a story circulated about a drone hobbyist whose photos of a Dallas-area meat-packing plant dumping blood into a river got the feds to investigate the plant. Environmentalism seems ...

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A surge in shark bites and sightings off Suffolk South Shore beaches, so far in 2023 and in summers of the recent past, has spurred the county this week to add two drones and a pair of personal ...

Gathering genetic material from treetops in tropical rainforests would be a near-impossible task to perform safely by hand. That's why scientists have developed a system that allows a drone to do the ...

The January 8 deadline for comments on the FAA’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment for drone delivery is rapidly approaching.

Across Ghana’s river basins, the damage of illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey, is visible from space. The once-clear Pra, Ankobra, and Birim Rivers now flow brown with silt and mercury, choking ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that the state will spend $1 million on 42 new drones for Long Island and New York City beaches to monitor sharks following five bites in two days off Long Island’s South ...

Drones are increasingly recognized as a feature of the contemporary operational environment. Indeed, drones—of all types: aerial, waterborne (maritime), and ground (surface and subsurface) are ...