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Artificial intelligence (AI) could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than

Artificial intelligence (AI) could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers of AI,” recently announced he had quit Alphabet after a decade at the firm, saying he…...

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in are shrinking which is also raising the pitch of their calls due to climate

#Frogs in #PuertoRico are shrinking which is also raising the pitch of their calls due to climate change and global warming, scientists say. Researchers have observed that the distinctive call of the coquí frog, native to the island, is changing depending on the frogs’ altitude on El Yunque mountain. With…...

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday has proposed the country’s

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday has proposed the country’s first rule to limit greenhouse pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants, aiming to effectively eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector by 2040. The rule could require power plants to use a new technology to capture smokestack…...

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People rest on an unusually high bench in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 10. The he

People rest on an unusually high bench in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 10. The height of a dozen public benches across Denmark was increased by 85 centimeters to draw attention to climate change. According to the World Climate Research Programme, the high-end global mean sea-level rise is now projected to…...

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