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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”

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Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. These were not FPV drones, for the most part. On 4 March, a Ukrainian soldier flew a drone at a testing site near the town of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. But constructing a map for the full area that included the specific coordinates of all the detected mines in under 72 hours was simply not possible with any reasonable computational resources. All our hard work paid off.

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Study reports non-US global shale gas recoverable resources of 5,760 Tcf; global shale gas boosts total recoverable natural gas resources by 40%

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Initial assessments of 48 shale gas basins containing almost 70 shale gas formations in 32 countries suggest that shale gas resources, which have recently provided a major boost to US natural gas production, are also available in other world regions. A new EIA-sponsored study by Advanced Resources International, Inc. Click to enlarge.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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Around the world, about 60 countries are contaminated with land mines and unexploded ordnance, and Ukraine is the worst off. The first part is the non-technical survey, and then this is clearance. Really, it started ramping up in Ukraine. And everybody we talked to in Ukraine is facing that issue.

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Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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Globally, coal mining is decreasing in the United States and Europe but increasing rapidly in other parts of the world, such as southeast Asia and India. His paper drew largely on data from the United States and Ukraine, countries where data about coal mine status and methane is fully available. —Nazar Kholod.

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LKAB identifies Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals in Lapland; Per Geijer

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Following successful exploration, the company is reporting mineral resources of rare earth metals in the Per Geijer deposit exceeding one million tonnes of rare earth oxides—the largest known deposit of its kind in Europe. Extraction and processing of phosphorus, rare earth elements and fluorine are part of LKAB’s ReeMAP project.

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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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The European Union (EU27) is the most effected region to the energy crisis driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but even so, is projected to see fossil CO 2 emissions decline by only 0.8% (range -2.8% parts per million (ppm) per year in the last five years, and a project to increase 2.5ppm in 2022 and reach 417.2 for oil, 1.1%

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