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With wildfires blazing across Canada and blotting out the sun in much of America’s Midwest and Western Europe, not to mention the onset of California’s “wildfire season,” the rush is on to create better early response technology and even ways to precisely predict breakouts and early intervention, which offers the best chance of controlling wildfires. […]
Source: Fight Fire With — AI? Artificial Intelligence Tackles Wildfires
Another cool use of machine learning (aka AI).
More than 73,000 people in Kebbi and Sokoto States have gained access to improved water supply following the construction of 19 new solar-powered boreholes
Source: USAID Provides Clean Water To Over 73,000 In Nigerian States
You had me at “solar powered boreholes”. 
Twenty unhoused people in Phoenix are set to move into a new, solar-powered shelter constructed out of shipping containers next week.
Source: See the solar-powered homeless shelter made from shipping containers
Cool idea.
University of Missouri researchers are on the leading-edge of developing sustainable plastic waste road pavement mixtures.
Source: Driving innovative solutions for advancing use of ‘plastic’ roads
Cool idea.
When Everett Kalin was 91 years old, he decided to try skydiving. This year, Kalin, now 93, thought he’d climb Half Dome in Yosemite.
Source: ‘He’s stubborn as a mule’: 93-year-old summits Yosemite’s Half Dome
Inspiring.
The herbivores snacked on plant overgrowth at an 18th-century graveyard in Cork County, revealing long-hidden burial markers
Source: Grazing Goats and Sheep Help Uncover Historic Headstones in Ireland
Love it.
Preliminary results from major trial show use of technology almost halves human workload
Source: AI use in breast cancer screening as good as two radiologists, study finds
More important than the workload, it was more accurate. This is the positive side of AI.
Instead of dismissing a young boy going door-to-door in a neighborhood a police officer took the time to understand.
Source: Officer surprises young boy with PS5 after neighbors ask for him to be removed
Nicely done.
A Manchester woman’s pioneering retrofit academy is doing what our politicians can’t seem to – insulating homes across Britain
Source: The construction firm training up ex-prisoners in retrofit skills
Great idea.
The electricity made at this farm can power around 250 households, and the hops get shade they’ll need more often as climate change turbocharges summer heat.
Source: Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.
Very cool.