Surprise
From public sources: the team expected to find a fixed set of click patterns. Instead, whales combine rhythm, tempo, small timing shifts and extra clicks into many variations that depend on the conversation. The authors stress that this shows structure,...
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Surprise
From public sources: comparing satellite images from 2017 to 2021 with ship-tracking broadcasts, the team found about 75% of industrial fishing vessels and over 25% of transport and energy vessels were missing from public tracking. Not all boats are...
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Workaround
From public sources: as the photo collection grew from 12 to nearly 21 million images, training slowed. iNaturalist wrote new training software, which it estimated cut training time from about seven months to about two and a half. It also reported that...
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Workaround
From public sources: Felidae writes that wind, shadows and moving plants set off its cameras, producing thousands of empty photos in a single batch. Running MegaDetector first removes those, and SpeciesNet then suggests species. Felidae reports that...
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Earth Species Project is a nonprofit research lab that builds AI to help people decode how animals communicate. It released NatureLM-audio, an open model for analyzing animal sounds, and works...
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Climate TRACE is a coalition of more than 100 nonprofits, universities and companies that estimates greenhouse gas emissions from individual power plants, factories, ships and other sources...
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Rainforest Connection, a nonprofit, places solar-powered listening devices called Guardians in forests. AI picks out the sounds of chainsaws and other threats, such as poaching, and alerts nearby...
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When federal agencies took environmental justice tools offline in early 2025, the Public Environmental Data Partners rebuilt and re-hosted them, including EPA's EJScreen, the Climate and Economic...
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Mary-Clare Bosco, Jonathan Gilmour and Rebecca Kilberg, 2024 Aspen Policy Academy fellows, wrote a policy plan for Utah. They recommend that the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner set...
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