A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the ...

Most Americans have heard about data centers, but many view their environmental and community effects negatively, according to a Pew Research Center survey released March 12. The survey of 8,512 U.S.

Pharmaceutical residues increasingly enter ecosystems across the drug life cycle, prompting calls for coordinated global action grounded in One Health principles.

While artificial intelligence (AI) may solve certain sustainability issues in the future, the technology’s environmental footprint is already a topic of much discussion today. To help society bridge ...

Adushkin, Vitaly V, and Alexander Spivak. 2015. Underground Explosions. Washington, DC. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA627744.pdf Allen, R. T., and R. E. Duff ...

A trove of lithium-rich brine exists underground in Bolivia. Researchers conducted the first comprehensive chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the resource. The world's largest ...

Training and using artificial intelligence consumes energy and produces fossil fuel emissions and pollutants. AI has driven significant increases in greenhouse gas emissions from major technology ...

Opacity in A.I. infrastructure and narrow measurement tools are widening the gap between corporate climate commitments and environmental reality. Courtesy Microsoft As A.I. adoption accelerates, ...

From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...