AI has a big, dirty problem that is tarnishing Big Tech's environmental image

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Construction workers building a new Facebook data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, in May 2019.

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Ultrarich Burning Man attendees are getting slammed by climate activists for private jets and their outlandish use of plastic

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Walkway to the Man from Burning Man 2014
Protesters blocked the entrance to Burning Man, demanding restrictions on private jets and single-use plastics at the festival.

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Racist housing practices left Minneapolis with an extreme heat problem. Now, the city is rushing to reverse the lasting effects of environmental racism.

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Extreme heat could make photosynthesis impossible for tropical trees and plants that may all die as a result, a new study found.

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Visitors walk through the world heritage listed daintree rainforest on November 14, 2012 in Mossman Gorge, Australia.

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Shipping is a big polluter so the freight giants are trying new cargo ships powered by wind or green methanol

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The Pyxis Ocean was retrofitted with two WindWings.

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The year of 'global boiling' is creating an opportunity for winemakers in Sweden, and one winemaker says he can see things growing here that were unthinkable 30 or 40 years ago

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Murre Sofrakis, the winemaker at Fladie vineyard, looks at the grapevine near the city of Lund in Skane County, southern Sweden, on August 28, 2019
The year of global boiling is creating an opportunity for winemakers in Sweden, and one winemaker says he can "see things growing here that were unthinkable 30 or 40 years ago."

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Ancient viruses could re-emerge as permafrost melts, posing 'unpredictable threats' to our communities, new study says

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Ice melts from thawing permafrost in Newtok, Alaska.

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The money of America's top 10% is causing almost half of US emissions. So tax it, researchers say.

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In a new study, the income flows of the wealthiest 10% in the US were associated with 40% of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions.

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On Maui, a perfect storm of climate, colonialism, and failed emergency systems made the deadliest US wildfire in over a century

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A burned cars sits among destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023.
A burned cars sits among destroyed buildings in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina on August 11, 2023.

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