LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- California is one of 36 global biodiversity hot spots - places that are biologically rich but deeply threatened having lost at least 70% of their original native vegetation. So ...

I started using iNaturalist in 2018. I had been using the app, a free citizen science platform that defies easy categorization, to record the wildlife I observed as I traveled. A sort of real-life ...

Can artificial intelligence help people learn about nature? And if so, is using this technology worth the environmental toll and other consequences? On June 10 the nonprofit organization iNaturalist, ...

Seek by iNaturalist uses AI to identify any plant, animal or fungi from a photo, while your input helps scientists discover new species. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recently launched the Oregon Wildlife Conservation project on the app iNaturalist to request the public’s help in documenting the ...

Remember when Pokémon Go mania had people exploring the outdoors in search of fictional game characters? Well, we have just leveled up, folks. iNaturalist, the latest app taking the globe by storm, is ...

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Mindy Fawver is retired from a career in commercial photography and graphic design, while her husband, Doug Bruce, works as an industrial alignment engineer; neither has a professional background in ...

Missing knowledge in the global distribution of plant traits could be filled with data from species identification apps. Researchers were able to demonstrate this based on data from the popular ...

There are loads of benefits to spending more time outdoors. Aside from improvements to physical and mental health, it can also contribute to the health of the environment. Last year, David LaMagna ...