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Snap, Scan, and Know: AI Turns Meal Photos into Instant Nutrition Facts

NYU Tandon researchers have developed an AI-powered food recognition system that accurately estimates calories and macronutrients from meal photos, eliminating the need for manual food tracking.

19 Mar 2025

AI Tool Identifies Species and Maps Ecosystems Using Multimodal Data

TaxaBind is a multimodal AI tool that combines images, audio, text, and satellite data to classify species, map distributions, and support ecological modeling, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in zero-shot classification and cross-modal retrieval.

4 Mar 2025

AI Rewrites Social Media Posts but Subtly Changes Their Emotional Tone

Large language models subtly shift the sentiment of text they rephrase, making content more neutral and altering conclusions drawn from sentiment-based research.

25 Feb 2025

AI-Powered Weather Model AIFS Improves Forecast Accuracy and Reduces Energy Use

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has launched the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS), a cutting-edge AI-driven model that improves weather prediction accuracy by up to 20% while reducing energy consumption by 1,000 times compared to traditional methods.

25 Feb 2025

AI Reveals Hidden Green Space Gaps in Cities, Driving Smarter Urban Planning

Researchers developed an AI system that improves tracking of urban green spaces using satellite imagery, significantly enhancing accuracy and revealing disparities in vegetation distribution.

20 Feb 2025

AI Tools Help UK Farmers Cut Livestock Emissions and Boost Sustainability

Loughborough University researchers have developed AI tools to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from UK livestock farming and land use, supporting the 2050 net zero goal.

18 Feb 2025

AI System Integrates Data to Help Preserve the World’s Fragile Coral Reefs

Australian researchers are developing a global real-time monitoring system using machine learning and AI to track coral reef health and combat the rapid decline caused by climate change, aiming for quicker conservation intervention.

13 Feb 2025

Governments Must Act Fast: AI Report Highlights Growing Dangers

The first International AI Safety Report, led by Yoshua Bengio, consolidates expert insights on AI risks and policy guidance for global decision-makers.

3 Feb 2025

AI Traces Agricultural Chemicals’ Deadly Path Through UK Freshwater Networks

Researchers used AI-powered analysis of 52 UK lakes to identify insecticides, fungicides, and heavy metals as top drivers of freshwater biodiversity loss, revealing widespread harm to non-target species and actionable targets for conservation.

22 Jan 2025

AI Unveils Alarming Glacier Retreats in Arctic Climate Hotspot

Study reveals that 91% of glaciers in Svalbard, a global warming hotspot, have shrunk significantly over the past 40 years, losing over 800 km². Using AI to analyze satellite data, researchers found that glacier retreats have accelerated in recent years due to rising temperatures and extreme weather events.

16 Jan 2025

Harnessing AI to Decode and Combat Harmful Algal Blooms

Researchers developed an explainable AI model to predict harmful algal blooms, uncovering key environmental drivers and offering scalable solutions for data-scarce regions.

15 Jan 2025

Generative AI Drives Breakthrough in Methane Reduction for Cattle

Generative AI accelerates the discovery of safe, scalable solutions to reduce methane emissions in cattle, aiding climate change mitigation goals.

8 Jan 2025

AI Predicts Unstoppable Global Warming Milestones

Scientists predict with near certainty that global warming will exceed 1.5°C, with extreme heat years becoming more frequent, even under rapid decarbonization efforts.

10 Dec 2024

Scientists Revolutionize Forest Management with AI-Driven Forest 4.0 Framework

Lithuanian and Swedish researchers have pioneered Forest 4.0, a digital framework combining AI, blockchain, and IoT to revolutionize sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation.

26 Nov 2024

AI Extends EV Battery Life

Researchers developed a domain knowledge-guided machine learning framework that accurately estimates the state of health of lithium-ion batteries, achieving high precision even with limited data, to advance electric vehicle technologies.

18 Nov 2024

Machine Learning Powering Breakthroughs in Climate Forecasting and Modeling

Machine learning is transforming climate science by enhancing data reconstruction, improving model precision, and enabling more accurate climate forecasts at lower costs.

14 Nov 2024

AI Reconstructs Europe’s Climate Extremes, Transforming Climate Risk Analysis

AI reconstructs historical climate extremes in Europe from 1901 to 2018, filling data gaps and enhancing climate risk assessment.

4 Nov 2024

Researchers Develop AI System to Predict and Control Extreme Turbulence in UAVs

Researchers at Caltech and Nvidia have developed FALCON, a model-based AI that predicts turbulent winds and stabilizes UAVs in real-time using reinforcement learning.

16 Oct 2024

AI Transforms Climate Research, China Leads Global Innovation

Researchers used a vast, multilingual dataset to systematically review how artificial intelligence is applied in global climate research, identifying China as the leading contributor and uncovering opportunities for AI to further impact climate science.

3 Oct 2024

Green AI: Exploring Sustainable Strategies for Energy-Efficient Systems and Eco-Friendly Innovations

Researchers explore green AI as a key approach to minimizing AI's environmental impact through energy-efficient algorithms and hardware, driving sustainability without sacrificing performance.

27 Sep 2024