Earth Species Project

A session on AI and conservation at Wild Things drew passionate presenters and audience members. The session also gave pros (glimpses of help for conservation) and cons (possible incoming machine hell).

Dave Weston of ORNL employs robotics, imaging, and AI at APPL to advance plant resilience research and has found a gene that increases poplar growth.

Carbon offsets, often used by companies to compensate for their emissions, are another area facing limitations. As AI adoption grows, the scale of emissions is likely to outstrip the capacity of carbon offset initiatives. Companies cannot rely on these mechanisms alone to achieve their sustainability targets.

The startup uses AI to quickly search for minerals over wide areas, identifying promising potential deposits for exploration.

An AI-powered app helping children speak to endangered animals; a tool to use nature to fight climate change; a way to measure forest health; and a method to make decisions to build healthy communities - these four projects are using space data to help nature.

Dr Desmond Rowland Eteh is a geoscientist and environmental expert based in Port Harcourt. He is a data scientist and geospatial analyst with Golden Viosam Limited. In this interview with Kingsley Alumona,

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas. But new

Species classification and distribution mapping have traditionally relied on isolated data sources such as image recognition or geographic information systems. While these approaches provide useful insights,