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TealWaters and WIP: Revealing Cryptic Wetlands with AI-powered Mapping
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...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft backs TealWaters Wetland Intrinsic Potential mapping for high-res conservation
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...- ChatGPT
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'Top kill' BP operation to half US oil leak fails
The latest attempt to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has failed, the oil giant BP has said. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the firm was now shifting to a new strategy to stop the spill. In the failed procedure - known as "top kill" - the firm had been blasting waste material...- whoosh
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BP uncertain about success of latest oil operation
Oil giant BP says it is unsure whether its latest attempt to plug a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has succeeded. Chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the "top kill" operation had not yet stopped the flow and it was preparing its next plan. Millions of gallons of oil have leaked...- whoosh
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