Using AI, Other Tech to Monitor Companies’ Impacts on Biodiversity
As environmental challenges make daily headlines across the world, tools including AI, Earth observation and other data sources are underpinning new efforts to measure and evaluate private sector companies’ effects on the natural world.
The work started with voluntary tracking efforts, but became mandatory in EU countries this month. A new...
The Secret to Better Coffee? The Birds and the Bees
A groundbreaking new study finds that coffee beans are bigger and more plentiful when birds and bees team up to protect and pollinate coffee plants.
Without these winged helpers, some traveling thousands of miles, coffee farmers would see a 25% drop in crop yields, a loss of roughly $1,066 per hectare of coffee.
The 25 Happiest U.S. City Park Systems, Ranked by Scientists
Feeling unhappy? Go find a city park—the bigger the better—and try taking a walk outdoors.
That’s the upshot of a major new study that measures the happiness effects of city parks in the 25 largest U.S. cities, from New York City and Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
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