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Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: William J. Broad
4 December 2024 at 11:00
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.

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A satellite image of a bomb cyclone over the North American Pacific Coast last month.

What Can the World’s Top Court Do About Climate Change?

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Marlise Simons
2 December 2024 at 05:02
The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, is beginning landmark hearings on global warming. Here’s a guide.

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Mexico’s Valle de Bravo reservoir this year. The court has been asked what obligations governments have to protect the world’s climate system.

Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Cara Buckley
29 November 2024 at 05:02
More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.

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Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is among the earliest cemeteries in the country to be modeled after rural landscapes, and to serve as an urban park.

As Plastic Talks Continue, a Reminder of What We’re All Exposed To

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Hiroko Tabuchi
28 November 2024 at 15:31
As international talks continue this week, a dozen U.N. officials reveal scientists tracked their exposure to many chemicals found in plastics.

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Scientists can use silicone wrist bands to measure a person’s exposure to chemicals.

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger Seeks Climate Policy That Works With the Land

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Keridwen Cornelius
26 November 2024 at 05:02
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger works to empower Indigenous peoples to lead the way on climate justice and decolonize environmental policy.

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Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, executive director and co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action, speaking at the COP26 climate summit in 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland.

An Indigenous Woman Helps Her People Address Climate Change

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Shivani Vora
26 November 2024 at 05:02
Having grown up in Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim has taken on the cause of negotiating for her community at the international level.

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In October, flooding in N’Djamena, the Chad capital. Climate change was believed to have contributed to torrential downpours.

Kate Raworth Looked Beyond G.D.P. to Create ‘Doughnut Economics’

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Keridwen Cornelius
26 November 2024 at 05:01
With “Doughnut Economics,” Kate Raworth looks instead at planetary well-being.

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Kate Raworth speaking in London in 2022. She published her book “Doughnut Economics” in 2017.

Chef Nadia Sammut Aims to Educate About How Food Affects the Earth

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Farah Nayeri
26 November 2024 at 05:01
Through her restaurant in France and her academy, Nadia Sammut aims to teach people about how their food choices can harm — or help — the planet.

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The chef Nadia Sammut at work during a festival in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France, in 2022. She is the chef of La Fenière, a Michelin-star gluten-free restaurant in Provence.

Mette Lykke Helps Keep Food Out of the Trash in 19 Countries

✇NYT > Climate and Environment
By: Shivani Vora
26 November 2024 at 05:00
Mette Lykke leads Too Good to Go, which operates in 19 countries to reduce waste and make surplus food accessible.

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One of three sculptures in a 2021 installation in London by Too Good to Go that called for action on food waste in Britain.

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

✇NYT > Science
By: William J. Broad
4 December 2024 at 11:00
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.

© CIRA/NOAA, via Reuters

A satellite image of a bomb cyclone over the North American Pacific Coast last month.

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

✇NYT > Technology
By: William J. Broad
4 December 2024 at 11:00
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.

© CIRA/NOAA, via Reuters

A satellite image of a bomb cyclone over the North American Pacific Coast last month.
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