Globally, wildfires cost $50 bn every year; AI can help fight them: WEF

World Economic Forum said that global wildfires in 2021 released an estimated 6,450 mega tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere Sensors with in-built AI can collect acoustic information or operate as smoke detectors in forests and alert authorities within the first hour of...
Wildfires projected to rise 50% in this century due to climate crisis and changes in land use: UN Report

Wildfires projected to rise 50% in this century due to climate crisis and changes in land use: UN Report

“Wildfires are made worse by climate change through increased drought, high air temperatures, low relative humidity, lightning, and strong winds resulting in hotter, drier, and longer fire seasons,” UNEP said UN: Wildfires are projected to rise by 50 per cent by the...