🧠 Artificial Intelligence
🌊 New AI tool can check up on ocean health from space
Different colours of the water are indicators of ocean health. We often see the ocean as blue. Clean water deep enough so you don’t see the seafloor will always look blue to us because of the way water absorbs and scatters light. However, sand runoff, phytoplankton or...
🌍 Global Forest Watch can now see through clouds
Global Forest Watch by World Resources Institute can now track deforestation shortly after it happens, even on a cloudy day. This new range of capabilities will improve efforts to monitor tropical deforestation. The software is very popular with citizen scientists...
👂AI listening device helps rangers deal with illegal logging
The Indonesian island Sumatra’s rainforest is home to a very unique ecosystem sheltering some of the worlds most critically endangered species. Actually, it’s the only place on earth where rhinos, elephants, tigers and orangutans live together. Sadly there is only...
🦅 Smart camera system saves endangered birds from wind turbines deaths
Renewable energy is growing fast and is expanding across the globe. Wind turbines are one of the best options for renewable energy. There is a backside though. Wind farms have been proven to kill birds with their blades. But now there is a solution that will help...
