A startup called Koloma has secured over $350 million in funding to pursue the ambitious goal of locating and extracting underground reservoirs of naturally occurring hydrogen, a potentially game-changing new energy source that could play a pivotal role in decarbonization efforts.
Chinese battery maker Gotion faced local backlash and political divide over plans for a factory in Michigan due to concerns about its Chinese ownership and alleged environmental risks, leading to protests and the ouster of supportive officials, though it proceeded with plans for a $2 billion factory in Illinois.
A major disruption in the polar vortex winds, forecasted to dramatically decrease and reverse direction this weekend, signals a potential early end to the winter season, bringing colder air to the eastern United States due to a disturbed jet stream.
An open-source AI ensemble combining object detection and species classification models, trained on over 65M images, revolutionizes wildlife monitoring by efficiently detecting and classifying species in camera trap images, minimizing human review effort.
Google unveils a $3M fund and an AI tool called SpeciesNet to accelerate nature-tech startups, supporting biodiversity conservation efforts by identifying animal species from camera trap photos and backing Brazilian nonprofits focused on reversing biodiversity loss, bioeconomy, and regenerative agriculture.
Groundbreaking discoveries reveal Mars once hosted vast oceans and wet environments around 3 billion years ago, as evidenced by the planet's iron-rich minerals and potential ancient shorelines, offering compelling insights into its watery past.
Evo 2, a groundbreaking AI tool, unlocks the secrets of nature's genetic code, enabling rapid protein discovery by virtually predicting the form and function of proteins encoded in the DNA of all living and extinct species, potentially revolutionizing biological research and accelerating scientific breakthroughs.
Alarming mass terminations of federal scientists responsible for public health, safety, and environmental protection have sparked widespread concerns over potential risks to air travel, medical device safety, wildlife habitats, and national parks.