Advance sustainability
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ニュース | Oceanographic
Artificial intelligence is now used to locate ghost nets in the ocean
Every year, 20% of all fishing gear in the world’s oceans is lost and an estimated 50,000 tons of lost fishing nets or ‘ghost nets’ end up in the oceans, posing a danger to a variety of marine wildlife. To…
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.
ニュース | Microsoft Stories
Protecting the Amazon from deforestation with Microsoft AI
Project Guacamaya is fighting deforestation by monitoring the Amazon rainforest with Microsoft AI. Researchers are studying daily satellite images, observing animal behavior with hidden cameras, and listening to forest sounds with tiny microphones. AI processes this data faster than ever…
As many as 1 million kilometers of fence may crisscross the western United States, enough to stretch to the Moon and back. Erected over the past century, largely to contain livestock, the barbed and woven wire fences also hinder wildlife such as…
ニュース | Microsoft on the Issues
Accelerating AI opportunity and climate solutions in Africa
Microsoft firmly believes that AI has tremendous potential to accelerate solutions to the various challenges societies are facing, including the climate crisis.
ニュース | Planet Labs
Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting
Learn about feasible and cost-effective reporting with AI, earth observation, and ecosystem science (download the white paper).
ニュース | UN Climate Change – Events
Moving at the Speed of AI: How AI Accelerates Progress on Climate Solutions
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels. Watch event from COP28.
ニュース | Microsoft on the Issues
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook
Given the urgency of the planetary crisis, society needs to push harder on the AI accelerator while establishing guardrails that steer the world safely, securely, and equitably toward net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and a nature-positive future. This year the world…
ニュース | LinkedIn Article
Using AI to protect the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest in South America is one of the world’s largest and most dense, but it is disappearing at an alarming rate. Estimates from researchers indicate that approximately 18% of the Amazon rainforest has been completely lost, while an…