Google has partnered with numerous other agencies to launch FireSat, a first-of-its-kind wildfire detection system.

Trees play a crucial role, using a natural mechanism that lets them absorb CO₂ from the air and convert it into oxygen.

Wildfires are raging stronger than ever, but Google (GOOGL) just sent its answer into orbit. FireSat, a groundbreaking AI-powered ...

The speed is more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk,” Alexander Handwerger, a landslide scientist at ...

A Washington Post analysis shows that some officials knew of the fire’s westward spread hours before evacuation orders were sent to residents in western Altadena.

Congressman Josh Harder (D-Stockton) has introduced a bill with bipartisan backing "trying to fight fire smarter." ...

As Skylo CEO Parthsarthi Trivedi explains at MWC, the satellite-messaging service has started small with emergency messaging ...

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History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

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