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A decade ago, climate change was a somewhat abstract notion, but today it’s a reality for much of the West. For the past three weeks, California, Oregon, and Washington fires have burned insanely hot, destroyed millions of acres of land,…Read More

Robots in the ocean. Are we really surprised? I mean, some of the things that robots can do nowadays are incredible. And as the relationship between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and climate change technologies is explored, robots’ roles in traveling…Read More

The Global Footprint Network determines an important date each year, but what exactly is Earth Overshoot Day? Based on 15,000 data points collected annually from each country by the United Nations, “Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand…Read More

Photo Credit: The cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev installing an antenna on the International Space Station in 2018 to track animal movements on Earth. Credit…A. Gerst/ESA/NASA (New York Times). The International Space Station has for the past 20 years…Read More

Last year, history was being made while answering questions we didn’t think to ask. We’re used to Google having all the answers, but it’s easier to forget just how difficult some of these questions are. For instance, this question took…Read More

Header Image: UAF/Martin Truffer via NASA; Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers in April 2019 A joint space-Earth mission to x-ray the planet’s poles over a decade. A team of scientists and pilots from multiple countries living in the extreme cold of the…Read More

Happy July 1st, my friends! Yes, it’s already July if you can believe it. With the seventh month of the year comes picnics, water lilies, Independence Day in the US, and some of the warmest temperatures of the year. But…Read More

Image Source: Our State Today is dedicated to raising awareness for one of the world’s most important pollinators, bees! In 2017, The UN declared May 20th as World Bee Day with the hope to bring more acknowledgment, awareness, and education…Read More

AI, or artificial intelligence, has been one of the buzziest words in tech for the last few years. While many Sci-Fi movies of old pictured AI as actual humanoid robots (or as little Haley Joel Osment’s), the actual function of…Read More

Remember a year ago? It was all about banning plastic straws. Everything was black and white, plastic was bad and everything else was good. The checkout line at Whole Foods, Tribeca, NYC, was the great humiliator, and as I always…Read More