Using AI to monitor deforestation in real-time, the declining deforestation rate in the Amazon, climate change-ready rice varieties that are already being harvested, Dubai’s plan to build the world’s largest artificial reef, & more!
 
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This Week’s Topics:
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This Week’s Topics!
Monitoring Deforestation In
Real Time With AI!
Amazon Deforestation Rate
Dropping!
Climate change-ready Rice
Varieties!
Dubai’s Plan To Build The
World's Largest Artificial Reef!
World’s First Commercially
Available Solar Powered Car!
Sweden’s Plan To Build
Electrified Roads!
 
Monitoring Deforestation In Real-Time With AI!
https://www.gim-international.com/content/news/harnessing-geospatial-ai-for-forest-conservation
EU Ban On Deforestation-linked Products
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/eu-lawmakers-back-ban-on-goods-linked-to-deforestation/#:~:text=The%20European%20Parliament%20approved%20a,destruction%20of%20the%20world's%20forests.
Carbon Offset Logging
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-14/carbon-credits-projects-papua-new-guinea-logging-four-corners/101936714
 
Amazon Deforestation Rate Dropping!
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/deforestation-brazils-amazon-falls-68-april-first-major-drop-under-lula-2023-05-12/
Progress This Year
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/amazon-deforestation-down-2023
Indigenous Land Recognition
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-resumes-creation-indigenous-reservations-halted-by-bolsonaro-2023-04-28/
AI To Monitor Road Construction
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/29/could-ai-save-amazon-rainforest-artificial-intelligence-conservation-deforestation
 
Climate change-ready Rice Varieties!
https://www.irri.org/climate-change-ready-rice
 
Dubai’s Plan To Build The World's Largest Artificial Reef!
https://urb.ae/projects/dubaireefs/
Biorock Information
https://www.globalcoral.org/biorock-coral-reef-marine-habitat-restoration/
 
World’s First Commercially Available Solar Powered Car!
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42408752/lightyear-2-solar-powered-ev-revealed/
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/lightyear-2-solar-powered-car-ev-sun-cost/
Lightyear Website
https://lightyear.one/lightyear-2
 
Sweden’s Plan To Build Electrified Roads!          
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-first-electrified-road-for-charging-vehicles-opens-in-sweden
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/09/sweden-is-building-the-worlds-first-permanent-electrified-road-for-evs-to-charge-while-dri
Cornell Professor Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BQUIRBMSWA