IT helps the environment and science

This AI-enabled device can identify the species around your home by their songs and alert you when new ones arrive.

These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium.

Mayor of London to launch pilot programme aimed at helping 75,000 of the city’s residents online through recycled devices and free mobile connectivity.

Apps and sensor-laden gadgets are helping farmers shift from the fields to indoor food-growing operations. But these innovations still don’t make it easy.

Juniper Research has predicted that CO2 emissions could be slashed if governments fully deploy smart traffic management systems.

Although real-world data is scant, proponents say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture.

Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country.

Learn why the CIO's role is critical in environmental sustainability efforts and how that's part of aligning with the business's ESG goals.

Watch Duty is already a lifeline for the state’s residents. Its reach could soon extend to more disasters and regions.

The Singapore government is running a pilot exercise to drive the sustainable development of new datacentres following a moratorium on datacentre builds.

Companies from a range of sectors, as well as public authorities are using software and data analytics to track greenhouse gas emissions, partly to meet new regulatory demands.

Remote sensing systems can struggle to spot high waters, especially in stormy weather or at night. Synthetic aperture radar offers a shot in the dark.

Traditional hurdles stand in the way of ambitious plans to use imagery to help feed people, reduce poverty, and protect the planet.

Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis.

A 3D data visualisation map from Cervest shows large swathes of Dublin could be affected by climate change-related coastal flooding in the years to come, which could have big implications for the region's datacentres.

Scientists call for electronic waste to be mined for precious metals as supplies of new materials become ‘unsustainable’.

These apps and online spaces can help you manage your eco-anxiety—and take steps to tread more lightly on the planet.

Big businesses set splashy climate targets but don’t always reveal their data. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to change that—to protect investors.