SPECIAL FEATURE | AI data center boom: Jobs machine or energy sinkhole—and should Asia follow?
The United States is building AI data centers at a scale that now resembles heavy industry rather than digital infrastructure....
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ENVIRONMENT | Boosting climate-smart forestry practices among private landowners
Purdue University has received $12 million of a $35 million project led by the American Forestry Foundation and funded by...
COMMUNITY | PLDT, Smart push for recycling, responsible waste management
PLDT Inc. and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. further embed recycling and responsible waste management into the companies’ culture....
ENVIRONMENT | Tips for businesses to achieve plastic pollution-free Christmas
Plastic pollution in the Philippines has already reached an alarming rate and continues to be one of the top environmental...
COMMUNITY | DENR backs PLDT, Smart’s e-waste disposal programs
In time for World Environment Day 2021, PLDT Inc. and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) signed a tripartite...
BOOK REVIEW | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and The Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
Bill Gates Battles the Climate Change Windmill Microsoft founder billionaire Bill Gates has a new book titled How to Avoid...
CLIMATE CHANGE | World’s oceans continue to warm, despite reduced carbon emissions
BEIJING, CHINA -- Despite reductions in global carbon emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the world's oceans in 2020 were...
ENVIRONMENT | Significant melting happens to Antarctic ice sheet surface: monitor report
The surface of the Antarctic ice sheet had experienced significant melting over the 1999-2019 period, said a remote sensing report...
ENVIRONMENT | Marine food webs facing collapse amid rising sea temperatures
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA -- Australian scientists have warned that marine ecosystems are on the brink of collapse as a result of...
COMMUNITY | Accenture, Intel, Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation use AI to save coral reefs
Accenture, Intel and the Philippines-based Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation have developed a new solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor, characterize and analyze coral...