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While it is legal to fly a drone in a US national forest, there are strict regulations governing when and where they can be flown. Drones must not be flown in wilderness areas nor over areas where ...

A new system of flying while avoiding obstacles enables a swarm of 10 lightweight drones to fly together without crashing into one another – or the environment. Drones can compute their location ...

FBI continues to investigate and the public continues to report drone sightings in the night sky over North Jersey. Who is ...

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture—To combat the persistent threat of suicides in Aokigahara forest, officials here are now relying on drones in addition to routine sweeps on foot.

On a hillside overlooking cabbage fields outside the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, a drone's rotors begin to whir, lifting it over a patch of forest. It moves back and forth atop the rich ...

Kenya Forest Research Institute (Kefri) is using drone technology to restore 5.1 million hectares of degraded lands. In partnership with the Kenya Flying Labs and Seedball Kenya, Kefri is using ...

Elsewhere in Malawi, UNICEF has experimented with sending drones to assess flash flood damage and transport ... a drone is being used to map the Jozani Forest. The organization that provided ...

Chernobyl's "Red Forest" - one of the most radioactive locations on Earth - has just been surveyed by UK scientists using a suite of drones. The robotic aircraft flew novel sensors that have given ...

A drone hovering above the treetops at Davy Crockett National Forest recently spotted something at the bottom of a pond – putting Texas police on the trail of a crime nearly three decades old.

The BBC explains that trees really do help soldiers move covertly, but staying in a forest becomes dangerous if a fire breaks ...