Technology

The Farming Industry Has Embraced ‘Precision Agriculture’ and AI, but Critics Question Its Environmental Benefits

Why have tech heavyweights, including Google and Microsoft, become so deeply integrated in agriculture? And who benefits from their involvement?

By Georgina Gustin

The EV Battery Tech That’s Worth the Hype, According to Experts

By Aarian Marshall, Wired

How Did This State Become the Data Center Capital of the World?

By Dan Gearino, Charles Paullin

A Dallas Startup Raises $5.5 Million to Build 3-D Solar Towers

By Arcelia Martin

As Chicago Quantum Campus Breaks Ground, Residents Call for Community Benefits

By Keerti Gopal

Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?

By Jennifer Ugwa

Could These ‘Deepfake’ Whales Aid Conservation Efforts?

By Kiley Price

Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels

By Dylan Baddour

AI Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation During Natural Disaster, Study Finds

By Ryan Krugman

AI Is Everywhere Now—and It’s Sucking Up a Lot of Water

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels in One of the State’s First “Agrivoltaic” Projects

By Jake Bolster

Destroying ‘Forever Chemicals’ is a Technological Race that Could Become a Multibillion-dollar Industry

By Chloe Johnson, Star Tribune

Forecasters Tap High-Tech Tools as US Warns of Another Unusually Active Hurricane Season

By James Bruggers

Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old Technology Holds Its Own

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: How Should We Account for Emerging Technologies in the Push for Net-Zero?

By Dan Gearino

Warming Trends: Climate Clues Deep in the Ocean, Robotic Bee Hives and Greenland’s Big Melt

By Katelyn Weisbrod, Bob Berwyn

Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies?

By Bob Berwyn

Biochar Traps Water and Fixes Carbon in Soil, Helping the Climate. But It’s Expensive

By Jonathan Moens

Warming Trends: A Hidden Crisis, a VR Forest You Can Visit, a New Trick for Atmospheric Rivers

By Katelyn Weisbrod