Across Germany’s northern mountains, 80 percent of the spruce stands are dead. Foresters, tourism operators and ecologists disagree about what the next forest should look like.
A pilot plant that turns forestry waste into charcoal has received the first credits under the E.U.’s new certification framework, a test of whether a regulated market can replace a voluntary one plagued by doubt.
After a three-year trial that found more cancers and cut radiologists’ workload by a third, Denmark will replace one of the two human readers in its national mammography program with software.
A 1.2 billion euro program created to recruit researchers unsettled by funding cuts in the United States has drawn 3,800 applications. The first arrivals say the science is funded; the bureaucracy is not.