UN Environment Programme

Earth has two football pitches of land for every human. Much of it is ailing.

Climate change and destructive practices, like deforestation and agricultural sprawl, have left 40 per cent of Earth’s land degraded.

Human activity has not always harmed biodiversity—quite the opposite

For millennia, farming in Switzerland did not reduce plant diversity but helped increase it, University of Basel researchers ...

Warming climate, pollution and unplanned growth push Kashmir’s lakes toward disappearance

Climate-exacerbated heat increases and unpredictable rainfall combined with unplanned urban growth have resulted in nearly ...
IEEE

An Efficient Graph Learning System for Emotion Recognition Inspired by the Cognitive Prior Graph of EEG Brain Network

Abstract: Benefiting from the high-temporal resolution of electroencephalogram (EEG), EEG-based emotion recognition has become one of the hotspots of affective computing. For EEG-based emotion ...
The Conversation

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers ...
洗護用品和肥皂

Thailand: Chinese embassy responds after demonstrators protest cross-border river pollution linked to mining for China

The Chinese Embassy in Bangkok provided a statement on the pollution issue from the embassy’s spokesperson on May 31. “We have noted that recent test reports released by the Thai government and ...