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22 votes
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Road hazard: Evidence mounts on toxic pollution from tires
30 votes -
‘We can’t drink oil’: How a seventy-year-old pipeline imperils the Great Lakes
31 votes -
What is saltwater intrusion and how is it affecting Louisiana’s drinking water?
17 votes -
Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’
23 votes -
A mysterious murder in the peyote guardians’ sacred desert
6 votes -
How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down
7 votes -
“Mating glaciers to replace water lost to climate change”
14 votes -
America is using up its groundwater like there’s no tomorrow: Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide
48 votes -
The indigenous groups fighting against the quest for 'white gold' in South America
11 votes -
Fukushima contaminated water set to be released into the ocean
13 votes -
Taliban bringing water to Afghanistan’s parched plains via massive canal
32 votes -
A state official refused to release water for West Maui fires until it was too late
27 votes -
Recorded interview with Hawaiian indigenous community leader re the fires, ecology, climate change, water, history, politics, culture and current needs
13 votes -
Judge rules in favor of Oklahoma against big chicken producers in poultry-pollution lawsuit
17 votes -
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris
6 votes -
Chemical companies’ PFAS payouts are huge – but the problem is even bigger
11 votes -
Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
16 votes -
Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?
32 votes -
How “Big Ag” pollutes America’s water, and makes money doing it
13 votes -
How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle
20 votes -
Ghost town disappears as California lake fills for first time in years
19 votes -
Germany's MAN Energy Solutions installs world's largest seawater CO2 heat pump for district heating at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark
7 votes -
Atmospheric rivers can cause catastrophic flooding and landslides but are crucial for water supply. In an era of increasing whiplash between flood and drought, can we learn to embrace the rains?
5 votes -
‘An insane amount of water’: What climate change means for California’s biggest dairy district
14 votes -
Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals
49 votes -
Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
10 votes -
Interview with computer science professor Shaolei Ren about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/07/08/ai-environmental-equity-its-not-easy-being-green A few months ago, I spoke with Shaolei Ren, as associate professor of computer science at University...
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/07/08/ai-environmental-equity-its-not-easy-being-green
A few months ago, I spoke with Shaolei Ren, as associate professor of computer science at University of California, Riverside, and his team about their research into the secret water footprint of AI. Recently, Ren and his team studied how AI’s environmental costs are often disproportionately higher in some regions than others, so I spoke with him again to dig into those findings.
His team, which includes UC Riverside Ph.D. candidates Pengfei Li and Jianyi Yang, and Adam Wierman, a professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology, looked into a path toward more equitable AI through what they call “geographical load balancing.” Specifically, this approach attempts to “explicitly address AI’s environmental impacts on the most disadvantaged regions.”
Ren and I talked about why it’s not easy being green and what tangible steps cloud service providers and app developers could take to reduce their environmental footprint.
4 votes -
Patagonia helps Samsung redesign washing machines to help reduce microfiber pollution
46 votes -
Spanish authorities are seeking €90 Million in damages from a Swedish mining company for a major toxic spill near the famed Doñana National Park in 1998
11 votes -
Highly radioactive spill near Columbia River in E. Washington worse than expected
50 votes -
Humans have used enough groundwater to shift Earth’s tilt
9 votes -
Rampant groundwater pumping has changed the tilt of Earth’s axis
34 votes -
The crop that’s sucking the Colorado River dry: Hay swallows triple the water used by everyone in the region to shower, water lawns, and do laundry
34 votes -
The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water
7 votes -
Phoenix area can’t meet groundwater demands over next century
10 votes -
How US Supreme Court’s EPA ruling might affect wetlands, clean water
5 votes -
Tulare lake is re-emerging in California, and farms and communities are going underwater
7 votes -
Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
6 votes -
California fires back at other Western states with its own Colorado River plan
9 votes -
Arizona city cuts off a neighborhood’s water supply amid drought
16 votes -
Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
15 votes -
Disaster scenarios raise the stakes for Colorado River negotiations
6 votes -
Cheap, renewable, clean energy. There's just one problem.
5 votes -
How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
4 votes -
Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea
6 votes -
California approves large, controversial desalination plant for Monterey Peninsula
9 votes -
Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution
11 votes -
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it is losing the bet.
11 votes -
Mississippi River levels are dropping too low for barges to float
3 votes