AI may develop a huge carbon footprint, but it could also be a critical ally in the fight against climate change
AI needs careful monitoring and the right policies to ensure it can benefit the fight against climate change.
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Warmer summers threaten Antarctica’s giant ice shelves because of the lakes they create
Melting lakes on ice shelves can widen cracks within them - new research shows how these lakes change across the world’s largest sheet.
Curious Kids: why is the sea salty?
The salt in the sea has built up over billions of years – but it wouldn’t have got there without freshwater rivers and streams.
Tropical ocean bacteria help pump CO2 out of the atmosphere ‑ new study
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help tropical phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide, creating a biological pump in the oceans.
Julian Assange verdict: how this curious episode might be brought to an end
Can the contentious UN verdict pull Julian Assange out of the world’s strangest diplomatic quagmire?
One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate change – here’s how else warming affects our health
Climate change has profound, but often overlooked, consequences for human health.
Bacteria on shoes could help forensic teams catch suspects
Germs on shoes and mobile phones are a good way of tracing criminal suspects, finds study.
What happened to the ‘greenest‑ever’ Conservative Party?
Summer budget signals a return to the unsustainable ways of the past.
Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it
Has global warming stalled? This question is increasingly being asked because the local weather seems cool and wet, or because the global mean temperature is not increasing at its earlier rate or the long-term…
Climate change ‘hotspots’: why they matter and why we should invest in them
Some areas expecting big environmental changes already have large, vulnerable populations.
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