The “Blue Marble” was one of the most iconic images of the Apollo era. Taken by Apollo 17 astronauts on their return trip from the moon, the first fully illuminated image of Earth taken by a person captured what the world looked like on December 7, 1972, just over 50 years ago. year. Now a …
It’s 2040 in Miami, and a powerful hurricane has swept through the lower town. You stand alone under dark, eerie skies, chest-high waves lapping around you. An abandoned car floats nearby, one of the few visible objects in the body of water. A bullet-shaped robot then hovers in view, prompting you to grab a computer …
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The Internet is anything but intangible, as all of these messages, images and videos live in data centers, which consume immense amounts of energy. Credit: Rawpixel, CC BY We’re used to thinking that going digital means going green. While that’s true for some activities — for example, making a video call across the ocean is …
* Games offer decision makers a choice of alternative futures * Virtual reality seen as an immersive way to experience climate risk * Video games incorporating rising climate impacts By Laurie Goering LONDON, December 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It’s 2040 in Miami, and a powerful hurricane has swept through the lower town. You stand …
Driving a small car to the cinema with a friend can have lower carbon emissions than showing the same movie alone at home We’re used to thinking that going digital means going green. While that’s true for some activities — for example, making a video call across the ocean is better than flying there — …
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Microsoft are working together to advance the agency’s climate goals under a new cooperative research and development agreement using Microsoft’s cloud computing tools while engaging in the climate-related research and development. According to Wednesday’s announcement, the agreement will further the agency’s mission to “create a climate-ready nation” by …
image: Dr Julian Quinting receives an ERC seed grant. (Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT) see After Credit: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Improving weather forecasts and reducing their computational effort to save costs and energy – these are the goals of the ASPIRE project. Meteorologist Dr. Julian Quinting from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) uses recurring signals …
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How studying clouds can improve climate models by Elise Gout |November 23, 2022 Associate researcher Kara Lamb grew up reading her father’s books American Scientist magazines. She absorbed everything she could about quantum physics and for a time thought she would study it for the rest of her career. But in 2008, after Lamb completed …
In the last 18 months, Terraforming, a global forest restoration startup, has launched 13 reforestation projects in 10 countries. The Hawaii-based company has launched projects from Armenia to Ghana and from Ecuador to India. Granular data will become one of the most powerful tools to restore forests and reduce carbon where logging, agriculture and real …
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The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has announced that it will build a digital version of itself in the metaverse to preserve its cultural heritage as it faces an existential threat from climate change. “As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation,” Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon …
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