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Why scientists are bugging the rainforest

Scientists use microphones and AI to automatically detect species by their chirps and croaks. This bioacoustics research could be critical for protecting ecosystems on a warming planet.
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Could AI save the Amazon rainforest?

Conservationists in the Brazilian Amazon are using a new tool to predict the next sites of deforestation – and it may prove a gamechanger in the war on logging.

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How AI could help bring a sustainable reckoning to hydropower

Dams wreak environmental and greenhouse gas havoc. Researchers are grappling with the task of making them environmentally sustainable.
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The science stories that shook 2018

Our guest scientists pick the breakthroughs and discoveries that defined their year, from insights into human evolution to our first trip aboard an asteroid.

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