The North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, along with 7 Directions of Service, commissioned a 27-page environmental and community impact report on mega convenience store chain Buc-ee's and ...

Claude-3.7 Sonnet, developed by Anthropic, is the most eco-efficient, the researchers claim, noting that hardware plays a major role in the environmental impact of AI models: GPT-4o mini, which ...

In a recently published study, researchers offer a new tool to compare how different crops affect the environment in different regions.. Named PLANTdex, the tool assesses the environmental impact ...

Using lifecycle assessment to determine potential end-to-end impact, Microsoft researchers assess the pros and cons of cold plate liquid cooling and one-phase and two-phase immersion cooling.

The US president's dismissal of authors behind the sixth National Climate Assessment is the latest in a series of cuts to climate science. What could this mean beyond its borders?

Research from AI community platform Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University claims that generating just one image can use as much energy as you need to fully charge your phone. The cost of the ...

Vertical farming can do more than lettuce. A research team has investigated the cultivation of six food groups in vertical farming: Crops, algae, mushrooms, insects, fish and cultivated meat. In ...

Even though the environmental impact is part of the blanket agreement to use AI responsibly, there are very few actual policies or legislations specific to protecting the planet or lowering emissions.

Nick Mordowanec is a Newsweek investigative reporter based in Michigan. His focus includes U.S. and international politics and policies, immigration, crime and social issues. Other reporting has ...

It appears, then, that research on environmental disclosure in high-impact sectors indicates a trend of information expansion (Albertini, 2014; Ahmadi & Bouri, 2017).Companies operating in these ...

In December 2023, the MIT Tech Review published an article with the headline “Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone.” Most users of image generation tools, ...