In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a German court concluded that a corporation can be held liable under civil law for its proportional contribution to global climate change, Climate Rights International said today. Filed in 2015, the case Read more…
Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company’s ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached. An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan Read more…
The world faces an 80% probability of breaking another annual temperature record within the next five years. The projections, derived from more than 200 computer simulations run by 10 global scientific centers, indicate an 86% chance that one of the next five years will surpass the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming Read more…
A German court has sentenced two former Volkswagen executives to prison and handed suspended sentences to two others for their roles in the Dieselgate emissions scandal, marking the conclusion of a nearly four-year fraud trial. The former head of diesel development was sentenced to four and a half years in Read more…
Pakistan will allocate 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity in the first phase of a national initiative to power bitcoin mining and AI data centres. The allocation is part of Islamabad’s plans to use its surplus electricity to bitcoin mining and AI data centres.
Science magazine reports that hummingbird feeders have become a major evolutionary force. (At least for the Anna’s hummingbird, a common species in the western U.S. Over just a few generations, their beaks have dramatically changed in size and shape…. [A]s feeders proliferated, Anna’s hummingbird beaks got longer and larger, which Read more…
Out of 186 countries, only Guyana produces enough food to self-sufficiently feed all its citizens without foreign imports, according to new research. The study, published in Nature Food, investigated how well each country could feed their populations in seven food groups: fruits, vegetables, dairy, fish, meat, plant-based protein and starchy Read more…