Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

Surface water is fundamental to the Earth system, and it is undergoing rapid transformation driven by climate variability, extreme events, land use change, ...

Researchers hope to expand the tool to other areas, including climate science Computer scientists and weather scientists have taken the first steps toward creating an AI agent capable of analyzing and ...

Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paper concludes that AGENTS.md files may often hinder AI coding agents. The researchers recommend omitting LLM-generated context files ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

Abstract: Landslides are tragic events that come in short notice and take countless lives. This disaster is in desperate need of an early warning system. The proposed system aims to predict landslides ...

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap.

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

I’ve been fortunate to invest in several AI funding rounds—from pre-seed to Series B to F—and to see up close how billions have flowed into ...