Nature Generates More Data Than The Internet … For Now

Via Popular Science, a look at how - in the next century - the information transmitted over the internet might eclipse the information shared between Earth's most abundant lifeforms:

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The Race to Save the World’s DNA

Via The New Yorker, a look at a scientific rescue mission which aims to analyze every plant, animal, and fungus before it’s too late:

Four years ago, a few hundred miles off the coast of West
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Animal CSI: Forensics Comes For The Wildlife Trade

Via Knowable Magazine, a look at how scientists are using the latest in DNA fingerprinting to combat the multibillion-dollar business of trafficking plants and animals:

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Five Ways AI Is Saving Wildlife

Via The Guardian, a look at why artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation, helping protect

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How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth

Via Wired, a look at how - with ecosystems in crisis - engineers and scientists are using AI to decipher what animals are saying, with the hope that - by truly listening to nature - humans will decide to

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USVs Could Deter IUU Fishing

Via the US Naval Institute, a report on how unmanned saildrones deployed primarily for maritime security at present, can support conservation efforts:

In the opening scenes of Top Gun: Maverick,
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Networked Nature
New technical innovations such as location-tracking devices, GPS and satellite communications, remote sensors, laser-imaging technologies, light detection and ranging” (LIDAR) sensing, high-resolution satellite imagery, digital mapping, advanced statistical analytical software and even biotechnology and synthetic biology are revolutionizing conservation in two key ways: first, by revealing the state of our world in unprecedented detail; and, second, by making available more data to more people in more places. The mission of this blog is to track these technical innovations that may give conservation the chance – for the first time – to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. It will also examine the unintended consequences and moral hazards that the use of these new tools may cause.Read More