Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalisations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from villages near India’s Kaziranga National Park.
The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, but countries are still off track to meet “important” deforestation targets.
A year-long government “sandbox” study identifies recurring conflicts in solar, aquaculture-solar, micro-hydropower and geothermal projects, prompting policy reforms …