Jan 19, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Environment
A global fleet of about a billion autonomous vehicles, each driving just for one hour per day, may generate about the same amount of carbon emissions as data centres currently do, according to a new study. The research, published recently in IEEE Micro, modelled the...
Oct 27, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Environment, Featured
Zoë Jewell had a problem. She had stumbled upon a better way to track the black rhinos she and her colleague were monitoring in Zimbabwe, but there wasn’t an easy way to scale the solution. Jewell and her partner discovered that the Indigenous guides...
Jul 28, 2022 | Climate, Environment
That Venice is in peril is indisputable. That it is ultimately saveable is up for discussion. Now, one company thinks they can make a difference to the floating, sinking city – with “flying” boats. Swedish company Candela thinks that its electric boats can help fight...
May 26, 2022 | Drones, Environment
Two indigenous activists from Ecuador who successfully fought against mining on their ancestral lands have won an international environmental prize. Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez were awarded the Goldman Prize, which recognises grassroots activism. They used...
Mar 3, 2022 | Environment, Robots
All living organisms need heavy metals like zinc and iron to survive and properly function. But increasingly, metals from industrial waste, mining, landfills, and even overcrowded cemeteries are leaching into the environment and contaminating it. Exposure to...
Feb 10, 2022 | Aeronautics, Environment, Featured, Robots
On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned, sank in the Gulf of Mexico and terrified the world. This horrific accident — recorded as the largest oil spill in history — killed 11 workers and released 210 million gallons of...
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