Exponential growth in big data and computing power is transforming climate science, where machine learning is playing a critical role in mapping the physics of our changing climate.

Scientists warn that the Arctic is warming far more quickly than the rest of the world and that this rapid change significantly impacts species, glaciers, and the planet’s climate. In the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard,

The data hasn’t improved since then, although, fortunately, AI tools have vastly improved and offer new possibilities.

Precise, verifiable, and granular data is key to climate risk mitigation. Increasingly, artificial intelligence systems emerge as the preeminent tools for collecting and analyzing climate insights with unprecedented accuracy and scope.

Microsoft invests $200 million in reforestation in Brazil. Teaming up with Re.green, the aim is to restore vital land and combat climate change.

Vijay Gadepally, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, leads a number of projects at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) to make computing platforms, and the artificial intelligence systems that run on them,

Some of the actions were clearly performative, such as renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Others will have immediate impact: Newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio paused all foreign aid for 90 days to ensure the funding is “fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.”

Companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are building large data centers in Indiana for AI. Each one requires power 24/7 and a lot of it. But Indiana utilities werent anticipating this when they made plans to get more power from sources like wind and solar.

The UK has a growth problem. Can it harness artificial intelligence to help solve it, without sacrificing its climate ambition? That’s the challenge posed by a plan to make the UK an AI superpower.

Philanthropy can help scale it where it’s needed most. At last year’s COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, world leaders grappled with a critical question. As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity,

Sarah Kaizar’s AT Feed is an automated aggregate of current climate news and a critique of the future of information.

The event, organised by the Responsible AI Lab (RAIL) and FAIR Forward (GIZ) on Friday, January 17, 2025, in Accra, saw the winners showcasing cutting-edge AI solutions for identifying various crop diseases.