On the prowl for invasive pythons, researchers are interrupting snake orgies

For months, he and his team had watched the snake using a transmitter and a trail camera. “I’m just kind of following this ...

8,000 pounds of invasive Burmese python removed from the Florida Everglades

The annual Florida Python Challenge is only a few weeks away, but participants will have trouble matching a new record set ...
IEEE

PyTond: Efficient Python Data Science on the Shoulders of Databases

Abstract: Python data science libraries such as Pandas and NumPy have recently gained immense popularity. Although these libraries are feature-rich and easy to use, their scalability limitations ...
Vox

We pulled pandas back from the brink of extinction. Meanwhile, the rest of nature collapsed.

Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...
GitHub

DSS-Python: Extended bindings for an alternative implementation of EPRI's OpenDSS

Python bindings and misc tools for using our to our customized/alternative implementation of OpenDSS, AltDSS/DSS C-API library. OpenDSS is an open-source electric power distribution system simulator ...
GitHub

Azure/azure-data-lake-store-python

A pure-python interface to the Azure Data-lake Storage Gen 1 system, providing pythonic file-system and file objects, seamless transition between Windows and POSIX remote paths, high-performance up- ...
CBS News

Pandas from China return to Washington, D.C., after beloved animals left National Zoo last year

Two giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, less than a year after the nation's capital said goodbye to another pair of pandas that were on loan from China. The new ...
The Washington Post

Giant pandas have returned to D.C. Meet Bao Li and Qing Bao.

After an 8,000-mile journey from China, Washington’s two new giant pandas arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Tuesday, delighting panda fans and continuing a conservation program that goes ...
The New York Times

Giant Pandas From China Return to National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year. By Michael Crowley and Eric Lee Reporting from Washington A pair of pandas ...
The New York Times

The Panda Factories

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into nature. It hasn’t gone as planned. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research ...
USA Today

Giant pandas go on display at San Diego Zoo: Gov. Newsom says 'It’s panda-mania'

A pair of giant pandas that arrived in San Diego from China a little more than a month ago have finally debuted and are now on display for the public at San Diego Zoo. Yun Chuan (yoon chu-an) and Xin ...