Fracta AI used for infrastructure

Artificial intelligence (AI) is utilized in the development of smart cities to manage water infrastructure and preservation. Machine learning algorithms can analyze large datasets to predict the probability of water main failures and optimize replacement planning. This technology provides accurate predictions at a fraction of the traditional cost and time, preventing catastrophic infrastructure failures and saving taxpayer money while ensuring reliable access to clean water.

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Technology has been enemy #1 to most environmentalists for a number of reasons: the manufacturing industry creates a tremendous amount of dangerous waste, machinery technology has increased development projects which has led to the extinction of many plants, birds and animals and our excessive power consumption is one of the leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions.

It isn’t all doom and gloom though, because as it turns out, AI has a green thumb and it’s been used to develop technology that can help prevent and in some cases even restore the damage we have done.

If human beings continue to refine technology and make a serious stand in protecting the environment, AI will become the planet’s biggest ally in our goal to become a more eco friendly planet.

How Artificial Intelligence will save the environment

Beekeeping and AI 
Bees are an integral part of the world's overall ecosystem and even for agriculture which is a sourcer of food for us all.

The bees are dying, the bees are dying! Colony collapse disorder is when a majority of worker bees in a colony die, leaving the queen bee alone in the hive without sustenance. This has been a massive problem in recent years — in 2016 beekeepers in the US lost 44% of their colonies. Since most plants rely heavily on bees for pollination, their absence is strongly felt throughout the entire ecosystem. There are many speculations about why colony collapse disorder is happening, such as overuse of pesticides, but to this day no one is quite sure what the reason is.

Even if we don’t know how to prevent bee colonies from collapsing, we can still focus on keeping the ones we have healthy! Startups like Nectar, based out of Montreal, are developing IoT solutions powered by AI to help beekeepers maintain healthy colonies. Nectar is building an apiary management platform, so that beekeepers can use data rather than intuition to determine what bees need and when they need it. The technology is even able to predict what events will occur in a hive and when, depending on many factors such as the temperature and season.

The majority of bees in the world have died out.

Bee-keeping Will Keep the Earth Alive

Rainforests are an important home for thousands of species as well as helping towards global warming.
Rainforests contain half of all life on Earth’s land mass and produce 20% of our oxygen, despite only covering 2% of our planet’s surface. However, they are disappearing at an alarming rate. It is estimated that up to 90% of all deforestation in tropical rainforests is illegal, wreaking havoc on the diverse animal and plant life that call the rainforest their home. One of the biggest drivers for this has been agriculture, as cattle ranchers transform the land to be used to raising livestock. Sadly, deforestation is difficult to detect and about a fifth of the Amazon rainforest has been lost in the last 50 years.

One of the reasons that it’s difficult to protect the rainforest is its size. The Amazon Rainforest is 23 times larger than the United Kingdom, making it impossible to monitor manually. It’s for this reason that organizations like The Rainforest Connection are turning to AI. The Rainforest Connection has combined solar panels and cells phones to create a cheap and rigorous acoustic monitoring system. They call these Guardian devices, and use AI to monitor for sounds of logging, such as chainsaws and vehicles, that are far away and imperceptible to the human ear. When these sounds are detected, the device alerts authorities in real time to intervene.

AI preventing deforestation

Here are some great organizations working on AI to save the planet

They have big partnerships with Microsoft and such so it's pretty cool.

Organizations to watch in the future of Green AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is applied in agriculture to improve soil management and combat the reduction of farmable land caused by desertification, pollution, and climate change. High-quality topsoil takes centuries to form and depends on complex variables such as climate, parent material, and biological interactions. AI-driven technologies address these challenges by combining computational analysis, genome sequencing, and data science to assess soil health from physical samples. These systems analyze the collected data to provide customized, actionable recommendations that help farmers optimize soil conditions and improve crop yields.

Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Soil Management

A significant amount of global fishing is illegal, unreported, or unregulated, equaling roughly a third of all legally caught fish. Illegal fishing is often conducted with prohibited gear and results in overfishing, which damages coral reefs, seamounts, and other vulnerable marine ecosystems. Approximately $$ 55\% $$ of the world’s reefs are threatened by excessive and destructive fishing, with nearly $$ 95\% $$ of reefs affected in South Asia. Illegal fishing also results in the capture of endangered species, such as the Atlantic salmon, or non-target species like sharks and turtles.

Because the fishing industry is inherently difficult to monitor, organizations are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle this problem. For example, The Nature Conservancy launched a challenge on Kaggle to source a machine learning model capable of detecting when protected fish are caught. The AI software flags suspicious portions of fishing video footage for human review. Given that it currently takes $$ 6 $$ hours for an officer to manually review $$ 10 $$ hours of fishing footage, this AI technology significantly increases the efficiency of monitoring and the scrutiny placed on illegal fishing operations.

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