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Emissions Reduction Alberta commits $33 million to 17 cleantech projects Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), an organization that aims to help the province deliver on its environmental and economic goals, has committed $33 million to 17 cleantech projects as part of its Food, Farming, and Forestry Challenge. ERA claims since launching, it has committed $646 million to 204 projects worth over $4.5 billion. The challenge, launched in June 2020, was open to projects that support com...

SEATTLE, Washington — Across the globe, communities are fighting for revitalized tree cover. Biodiversity loss and efforts to mitigate climate change are driving forces for this renewed interest in forests. Unfortunately, high costs in developing economies and poor political resolve in wealthy nations continue to frustrate reforestation efforts. Luckily, innovative start-ups in the U.S. are stepping up, using drone reforestation to radically reduce reforestation costs. These developments now ...

NASA Fits Orbiter Camera With AI to Track Changes on Mars Plus, drones that can plant thousands of trees in a day, mobile Microsoft data centers designed to set up in remote or hazardous locations, and a five-story building in Shanghai that “walked” itself down the street. 6,830 Scientists are applying AI to space exploration to track changes in celestial bodies over time. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory fed an algorithm 6,830 images taken by the Context Camera that’s pa...