Climate Change

In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.” Seventy years of AI research, he argued, kept demonstrating the same thing: The most effective ways to train AI rely on raw, brute-force computing power — simply scaling up — rather than clever approaches built…

For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy.  All that changed after…

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“You’d see massive glacier calvings, and you’d just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you’d be like … ‘can you not put two and two together?’” Those are the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed. For anyone interested in nature, few jobs…

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This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. The Arctic is warming four times faster than other regions, a trend that disproportionately harms the Indigenous Sámi people — particularly their access to vital traditional resources like reindeer and salmon, which are used for food, clothing, weapons, and more. As…

Gandhinagar: Apart from the obvious impacts on climate, elevated overnight temperatures are majorly costing sleeping time of people. While the phenomena has been manifesting globally, in Gujarat, people have lost average 81.4 hours of sleep per year due to nocturnal heat during 2020-2025. Residents in Ahmedabad lose an average of…

585,532 plays | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | TED2019 • April 2019 Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love -- with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she shares five reasons why these creatures are simply amazing (from their ability to…

Climate change is increasingly shaping economic activity, making climate adaptation an essential part of long-term planning for governments, businesses, and communities. Rising temperatures and more frequent floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires are placing growing pressure on infrastructure, agriculture, energy systems, public health, and supply chains, prompting greater investment in resilience…

COSTA RICA: Dawn is yet to break when primatologist Susan Perry and her field research team move through Costa Rica’s tropical dry forest for a day in the field studying Central American white-faced capuchin monkeys. Despite the darkness, the forest is humming. Perry calls this juncture “the changing of the…