U.S. workers are becoming more stressed about their rising personal debts and financial health

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events

Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe

He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the community is only really beginning to understand radiation's powerfully harmful effects

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Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs