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Daniel Bessner, Derek Davison Robert Wright joins the show to examine AI’s promise and perils, from machine intelligence and automation to capitalism, climate, and global regulation. The post The Need for Responsible AI—With Robert Wright appeared first on The Nation.

At the height of the 2024–2025 El Niño-induced drought, I watched in revulsion as hundreds of emaciated cattle desperately crowded for a drink around a small muddy dam in Mutare district in eastern Zimbabwe.

The project uses imagined climate-adapted photos of areas that have already been hard hit by sea-level rise, flooding, and coastal erosion.

Nearly 190,000 hectares of forest were converted to mines in Africa between 2001 and 2020, according to researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield.

Africa’s largest economy once refined its own fuel, but is now wholly dependent on imported petrol, diesel, and jet fuel, leaving it vulnerable to major disruptions.

Some of the storm’s most vulnerable victims — river dwellers — suffered dramatically when raging waters washed them downstream. Conservationists say it will take years to recover the damage. CLICK PLAY TO LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLES SOUNDSCAPE Hans Lohmeyer is standing in a lively park on the outskirts of Asheville as children and dogs gambol [...] The post Helene’s smallest sufferers: The river dwellers left behind appeared first on DCReport.org.

A three-year effort to map the oyster population in Abu Dhabi’s waters yielded more than expected, according to the emirate’s environmental agency.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past four years, Angie Mummaw has been told the gas-fired electrical plant planned by the Tennessee Valley Authority in rural Tennessee was a necessary stop on its move away from coal. But recent directives from the Trump administration mean the […]