Microsoft’s backing of TealWaters crystallizes a simple, urgent idea: make the invisible visible. By pairing the Wetland Intrinsic Potential (WIP) approach with cloud-scale processing and modern machine learning, the collaboration aims to reveal wetlands that legacy maps miss—especially small...
Microsoft has quietly begun underwriting a high-stakes experiment in conservation: funding TealWaters’ Wetland Intrinsic Potential mapping tool through its AI for Good Lab to find and protect wetlands that have been disappearing for centuries but are often invisible to conventional maps...