10 learnings
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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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Worked
From public sources: DeepMind reported cooling energy savings of up to 40%, which works out to about a 15% cut in total energy overhead once other losses are counted. The authors noted that every data center is built differently, so a model tuned for one...
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Worked
From public sources: Open Climate Fix reports that Quartz Solar halved large forecast errors compared with NESO's previous tools, and estimates it saves at least £30 million a year in balancing costs and about 300,000 tonnes of CO2. These figures come from...
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Surprise
From public sources: Microsoft reported a failure rate underwater of about one-eighth of a matching set of servers on land. The team's leading explanation was the sealed nitrogen atmosphere, which corrodes less than air, and the absence of people bumping...
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Surprise
From public sources: in 2024 a Microsoft executive told DatacenterDynamics the experiment worked but that the company was not building undersea data centers, and would apply what it learned about operations and vibration elsewhere. A successful pilot is...
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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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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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From public sources: Open Climate Fix reports up to an 8% gain in forecast accuracy for Indian state operators when tested on historical wind data, and an average 13% cut in imbalance penalties for Adani Green. The partners say these test results still...
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From public sources: Google describes early numbers showing potential for up to 30% fewer stops and 10% lower greenhouse gas emissions at coordinated intersections. It notes the figures are early, averaged, and modelled on a single vehicle type, and that...
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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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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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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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Electricity Maps maintains an open-source collection of programs, written with volunteer contributors, that gather electricity production, imports and exports from official sources around the...
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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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