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.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that unchecked climate change and AI pose existential threats to humanity. He emphasized AI's potential disruptiveness to economies and insisted it should benefit humanity rather than dominate it.
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.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world’s thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster” that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned — even as some leaders played up its
Generative AI chatbots fail to adequately reflect fossil fuel companies’ complicity in the climate crisis, a Global Witness investigation has found.
In early January 2025, amid the wildfires in Los Angeles, multiple posts about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change circulated widely.  Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen,
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, while ramping up oil and gas production at home and forging a path to leadership in the artificial intelligence space.
The Verge spoke with White House national climate adviser Zaidi this week about what he sees ahead for clean energy technologies and where there might still be room for progress. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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At the end of the day, an Nvidia scientist suggesting that AI can help solve these climate change-fueled fires feels akin (albeit on a smaller scale) to oil companies selling so-called "carbon ...
President Biden issued an executive order Tuesday to "accelerate the speed at which we build the next generation of AI infrastructure here in America."