Feb 11, 2021 | Climate, Smart Cities
The city of Canberra, Australia, reports that its smart lighting control modules on its streetlights stood resilient in the face of a storm whose impact was “catastrophic and widespread”. A severe storm caused golf ball-sized hail to batter the city and surrounding...
Feb 11, 2021 | Climate, Drones
Before we know it, June first will be upon us and tracking tropical systems will be part of our everyday lives. But even outside Hurricane Season, hurricane hunters remain busy working on testing new tools that could greatly improve hurricane forecasts. Last month the...
Jan 7, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Environment
Artificial intelligence has emerged as a new weapon in the battle for wildlife conservation in Lopé National Park in Gabon. Through machine learning, an algorithm is now able to identify over 25 species for researchers in the Congo Basin, which otherwise would have...
Dec 17, 2020 | Climate, Media
Critics have long attacked the oil industry for ad campaigns that they call “greenwashing” – telling people that policies or products are more environmentally friendly than they really are. But the ad agencies behind the campaigns have largely...
Dec 10, 2020 | Climate, Featured, Smart Cities
The incoming Biden administration has been praised by some experts for its potential benefits for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure and the smart city technology market, which includes areas like artificial intelligence (AI), smart grids, and other...
Nov 19, 2020 | Climate, Electric Vehicles, Environment
Britain is beginning to look at its growing fleet of electric cars as both a way to create jobs and balance the power grid, moving transport to the center of the fight against greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday called for phasing out...
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