The number of peer-reviewed studies using iNaturalist data has surged more than tenfold in the past five years, new research shows. Reading time 3 minutes With a smartphone in hand, anyone can be a ...

The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss - ...

When I recently moved, one of the building's standout features was the plethora of different plant species in front of its windows. But not like standard landscaping -- more like drier plants, ...

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 ...

Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter invites the community to get outside, take some photos and participate in the global community-science adventure called the City Nature Challenge. The four-day event runs ...

Using more than 652,000 observations uploaded to iNaturalist (left), UC Berkeley scientists created an AI model to predict the distribution of 2,221 species of plants around the state. To train the ...

Individuals across the country are being encouraged to participate in the global biodiversity documentation initiative, City ...

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 ...

A woman walks a quiet South Bay road near Los Gatos at night, headlamp sweeping the asphalt. Every few feet, she stops — not for traffic but for bodies. Dozens of them. Newts, splattered by cars ...