AI, Data Analytics Help Create ‘Smart Rainforest’ in Australia

Via Environment & Energy Leader, an article on the world’s first “smart rainforest,” where artificial intelligence and data is used to advance sustainable and cost-effective environmental restoration models

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How Technology Helps Scientists Protect Giraffes

Via Share America, a look at how solar-powered GPS tracking devices affixed to giraffes' ears allow conservation ecologists to remotely track animals and know when giraffes have strayed from protected areas:

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The Race To Build Climate-Resilient Reefs

Via BBC, a look at novel restoration methods that can speed up the recovery of threatened corals – but for a lasting impact, they need to be backed by action to stop ocean warming:

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Decoding Animal Communication with A.I.

Via Aspen Ideas, an interesting podcast on efforts to decode animal communication using A.I.:

Scientists could actually be close to being able to decode animal communication and figure out what animals are
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Tidal: Alphabet X’s New Effort to Protect The Oceans

Via MIT Technology Review, a look at a previously unreported Alphabet X program to use cameras, computer vision, and machine learning to track the carbon

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Why Scientists Are Bugging the Rainforest

Via Wired, an article on how some scientists are using microphones and AI to automatically detect species by their chirps and croaks. This bioacoustics research could be critical for protecting ecosystems on a

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New technical innovations such as location-tracking devices, GPS and satellite communications, remote sensors, laser-imaging technologies, light detection and ranging” (LIDAR) sensing, high-resolution satellite imagery, digital mapping, advanced statistical analytical software and even biotechnology and synthetic biology are revolutionizing conservation in two key ways: first, by revealing the state of our world in unprecedented detail; and, second, by making available more data to more people in more places. The mission of this blog is to track these technical innovations that may give conservation the chance – for the first time – to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. It will also examine the unintended consequences and moral hazards that the use of these new tools may cause.Read More