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Articles Tagged: Environmental sciences

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Scaling biodiversity monitoring for the data age

Technological advances have made it possible to collect massive amounts of biodiversity data. How can analysis efforts keep up?

By Sara Beery, June 2021

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How machine learning can help tackle climate change

Climate change poses a major threat to society, requiring rapid action from all corners. Machine learning can be a potentially useful tool for addressing climate change, when applied in coordination with policy, engineering, and other areas of action.

By Priya Donti, December 2020

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Battery-free subsea internet of things

How a scalable underwater sensor network, which is entirely battery-free, has the potential to monitor the world's oceans.

By Sayed Saad Afzal, December 2020

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3-D printing: green or not?

3-D printing: green or not?

3-D printing could herald new advances in sustainable production, that is, so long as it does not become a sustainability hazard itself.

By David Rejeski, April 2016

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