#co2-emissions

#co2-emissions

They're among the top underwater predators, capable of ripping flesh from the bone with a single bite. But even sharks are not immune to the effects of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, a new study reveals. In lab experiments, scientists in Germany exposed shark teeth to water with the acidity of the global ocean 175 years from now. They found that more acidic oceans - a consequence of carbon emissions - makes shark teeth structurally weaker and more prone to cracking and breakage.

Wildfires have so far ravaged more than one million hectares of land in European Union countries this year, a record since recording began in 2006, according to AFP analysis of official data. Surpassing the annual record of 988,524 hectares burnt in 2017, the figure reached 1,015,731 hectares on Thursday, an area larger than Cyprus. This calculation is based on a total compiled by AFP from estimates by country from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), at a time when Spain and Portugal are still battling wildfires.

The environmental audit by Mistral reveals that the majority of CO2 emissions and water consumption arise during model training and inference, not from construction or end-user equipment.

A request made using ChatGPT consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google search, highlighting the environmental impact of AI technology that many are unaware of.