Climate Change Archives

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Research

Earth’s “Third Pole” and Its Role in Global Climate

Lake Ximencuo, a glacial moraine lake, sits among mountain peaks on the Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Tenace10/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: Reviews of Geophysics Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East…

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Using AI To Fight Climate Change

How we’re applying the latest AI developments to help fight climate change and build a more sustainable, low-carbon world AI is a powerful technology that will transform our future, so…

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Technology

Worry Not, The AI Apocalypse! Even The Dinosaurs Were No Match For The Heavens!

There are several existential threats to humanity that are of great concern, but here are some of the most significant ones: 1. Nuclear War: The use of nuclear weapons in a conflict…

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Farming From Space: How Orbital Data Is Unlocking Novel Agriculture Insights

High-performance computing (HPC) and orbital data deliver unprecedented insights into weather patterns, improving planning, forecasting, and decision-making, in an ever-evolving agriculture supply chain. Consequently, global food security may be one of…

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For Adaptation & Agriculture Day, Atlas AI Is Taking Action To Help Adapt Our Agricultural Systems To A Changing Climate

Editor’s note: At Google Cloud we’re working with global organizations to help them use technology to build a more sustainable future. During the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or…

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Announcing The Climate Innovation Challenge—Grants To Support Cutting-Edge Earth Research

At Google, we believe that when it comes to solving a problem as big and urgent as climate change, we get more done when we collaborate. From beekeepers in Germany…

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A More Sustainable Future Should Be A More Open Future

Applying open organization principles can help us build the kind of global governance and foster the cooperation necessary to address climate and humanitarian development. In the first part of this extended review…

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Microsoft Announces It Will Be Carbon Negative By 2030

Microsoft Corp. announced on January 16 an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by…

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