Fin-Tech: How Sharks Could Sharpen Ocean Forecasts
May 6th, 2026
Via Anthropocene, an interesting look at how sensors strapped to 19 sharks off America’s east coast cut errors in a leading climate model by as much as 43%: The vast ocean dwarfs our efforts to understand it. Sensor-laden buoys, high-flying satellites and sophisticated computer models can only do so much to plumb the depths of the waters […]
Read More »Internet of Animals: How Tracking Animal Movement May Save the Planet
May 6th, 2026
Via MIT’s Technology Review, a look at how researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our shared world. There was something strange about the way the sharks were moving between the islands of the Bahamas. Tiger sharks tend to hug the shoreline, […]
Read More »We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
November 17th, 2025
Via New York Times, a report on how scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico: For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as […]
Read More »How Fiber Optic Cables Help Monitor Endangered Species
November 6th, 2025
Via Anthropocene Magazine, an article on how the fiber optic cables delivering your Netflix might help monitor endangered species: Fiber optic cables crisscross the world’s ocean like a spiderweb, transmitting vast amounts of data as pulses of light. What if they could also be used to listen in on life below the waves? An experiment […]
Read More »Using Technology To Stop Asia’s Deadly Elephant Wars
October 11th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how technology such as thermal drones, AI, and acoustic sensors are being used to stop the conflict between elephants and their deadliest enemy: man Thermal drones are launched. Artificial intelligence and acoustic sensors are activated to pinpoint targets. Armed rangers are sent out on patrols. Such innovations have found […]
Read More »Help Wanted: The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants
May 18th, 2025
Via Audobon, a report on how – from frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants – researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world: In the late 1990s, as an ecologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Martin Wikelski guesses he drove every mile of the Prairie State’s backroads […]
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