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Bioacoustics: Leveraging AI to process audio recordings of diverse species

Using geospatial data to assess damage to buildings in the affected region after the February 6, 2023 earthquake in Turkey.

Geospatial Machine Learning

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Advance sustainability initiative | AI For Good Lab

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Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

July 9, 2026 | Kenji Takeda, Haiyu Dong, Jonathan Weyn, Amit Misra, Matt Corey, Kevin White, Shannon Monroe, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ashley Llorens, Bonnie Kruft

Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and energy applications.

Aurora 1.5 | three white line icons on an abstract blue and purple background: globe, thunder cloud, tree

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Microsoft Research India Academic Summit 2026 – About the event

June 26, 2026 | Srinivasan Iyengar, Venkat Padmanabhan

Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 The Microsoft Research India Academic Research Summit 2026 is a vibrant convergence of ideas, bringing together leading researchers, faculty, and innovators from across the country. The summit, over…

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Enhanced Phosphate Capture by Thermally Modified Calcium Aluminate Decahydrate: Optimization, Performance and Mechanism.

Peng Cheng, Ruixiang Wang, Yu Liu, Yu Shang, Lei Yang, Yongxiang Ren

Molecules | June 2026, Vol 31 12

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China’s net-zero budget

Zhu Liu, Piyu Ke, Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Robbie Andrew, Ana Bastos, Yan Bai, Josep G. Canadell, Dabo Guan, Xinyu Dou, Steven J. Davis, Fangfang Dai, Pierre Friedlingstein, Xiaoting Huang, Yifan Hu, Robert B. Jackson, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Matthew W. Jones, Daniel M. Kammen, Yun Li, Tao Li, Shunlin Liang, Laibao Liu, Benjamin Poulter, Glen P. Peters, Stephen Sitch, Lixin Wang, Wei Wei, Fengming Xi, Xiaofan Gui, Jiang Bian, Yuan Wang, Jinjun Xue, Jinyue Yan, Xu Yue, Ning Zhang, Xian Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yonglong Lu, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Xiaoye Zhang, Minhan Dai, Pengfeng Gong, Kebin He, Guangqian Wang

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | May 2026

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Carbon-Aware Compute–Power Scheduling for AI Data Centers with Microgrid Prosumer Operations

Jue Zhang, Gaoyuan Du, Qianyi Sun, Shiqi Wang, Jiaxuan Li, Xianhe Sun

May 2026

arXiv | May 2026

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climt-paraformer: Stable Emulation of Convective Parameterization using a Temporal Memory-aware Transformer

Shuochen Wang, Nishant Yadav, J. Monteiro, A. Ganguly

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

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From real-world trajectory-level pre-crash data to driving behavior modeling: An inverse reinforcement learning framework based on ghost-probe scenarios

Jiang Bian, Helai Huang, Zhiyuan Wei, Hanchu Zhou, Min Liu, Gui Gui, Rui Zhou

Travel Behaviour and Society | April 2026

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Sims: An Interactive Tool for Geospatial Matching and Clustering

Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Eduardo G Bendito, Medha Devare, Meklit Chernet, Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

PLOS One | April 2026

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GeoAI Agency Primitives

Akram Zaytar, Rohan Sawahn, Caleb Robinson, Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, I. Becker-Reshef, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

April 2026

arXiv | April 2026

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Role of Plant Nanotechnology in Water Pollution

Harshita Sharma

Progress in the Environmental and Ecological Impact of Nanobiotechnology in Plant System | Published by Spinger Nature | 2026

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