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Artificial intelligence can help track down invasive plants before they take over verges

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Artificial intelligence can help track down invasive plants such as Japanese knotweed before they take over verges and cause expensive damage to roads The UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Keen AI are working on the AI Once trained, it will rapidly scan images of roadsides to highlight invasive plants This will reduce the … Read more

Councils urged to ‘cut back on mowing’ roadside verges to protect wildflowers

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Cutting back on mowing roadside grass patches will help wildflowers like oxeye daisies and harebells have ‘their best summer in years’. The UK has more than 310,000 miles of rural road verges which have become a refuge for wildflowers squeezed out of the countryside, says charity Plantlife. The plant conservation group says these flowers often … Read more