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Artificial intelligence is changing the world at an incredible pace. From automating tasks to generating human-like conversations, AI is becoming an essential tool in nearly every industry. However, many people don’t realize that AI consumes a massive amount of electricity.
Culture
The island may boast only 1,300 residents, but it handles more than its fair share of problems. Perpetually battered by big storms, the community has faced power outages where even the backup generators failed.
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Changing climate doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone everywhere. To some, warming will mean that already hot places will become even more temperature-challenged. To others, it might actually create new opportunities for things like growing food and new crops.
Conservation
After recent petitions from states to delist the bears, the federal government has announced that grizzly bears will remain protected under the ESA. Here’s what’s going on and what the near future looks like for American grizzlies:
Culture
Though progress has been made, multiple fires continue to burn throughout Los Angeles, with at least 5,000 structures destroyed or damaged and an estimated $57 billion worth of losses. Families have lost their homes, and mom-and-pop businesses have been destroyed. This wasn’t supposed to happen to urban areas.
Culture
Among the raft of executive actions in the first days of his second term, President Trump issued several related to energy and the climate. This included the declaration of a “National Energy Emergency.”
Culture
Community-driven clean energy projects often address local problems more effectively than big corporations or governments can. In Taos, New Mexico, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative improved an unreliable power supply by installing microgrid-small-scale, self-sufficient power grids that generate electricity for a localized area.
Culture
The beauty industry has small product sizes, planned obsolescence of products, unsustainable sourcing practices, and often excessive packaging and wrapping.
