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Credit: Forest Fire Management Victoria In the four years since the Black Summer bushfires, Australia has become more focused on how best to prepare for, fight and recover from these traumatic events. But one issue has largely flown under the radar: how the emissions produced by bushfires are measured and reported. Fires comprised 4.8% of total global…

Today is the last day of 2023, and while the world is immersed in bidding adieu to the year, the artificial intelligence space is still brimming with intriguing developments. Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the youth of the nation to explore AI tools, especially those that pertain to real-time language translation as a way to preserve and promote India's native languages. In other news, a research team in South Korea has developed a generative AI-powered acoustic simulation technology that can help in lowering…

This NASA image shows smoke from megafires on Australia’s east coast during the Black Summer. Credit: NASA Can bushfire smoke reduce the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere? A decade ago, we might have been skeptical. But there's a growing body of research showing a clear link. Last year, MIT expert Susan Solomon and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It has been 20 years to the day since bushfires burst out of the Brindabella Ranges and into the suburbs of our nation's bush capital. Four lives were lost, many people were injured and more than 500 homes were destroyed. There had been big bushfires before, and there were bigger bushfires to come,…