People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI
More than half of Miami-Dade County residents will face pressure to move as rising seas push residents inland to reach higher ground, a new study finds
Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace
The Philippines, India and China have seen the greatest total number of children displaced by disasters—some 23 million—in recent years
Next-generation 6G technology could “enable applications that we may not even imagine today”
About one in five U.S. counties are both socially vulnerable and highly exposed to natural disasters, which could “compound existing inequities,” the Department of the Treasury says in a new report...
A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice
United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is proposing a $500-billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals to preserve the environment and end poverty and hunger...
Four decades into his activism, Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead.
In the five decades between 1970 and 2021, extreme climate events caused more than two million deaths and led to economic losses of $4.3 trillion, 60 percent of which occurred in developing countries, a U.N...
Since 1970 more than 350 weather stations have experienced at least one six-hour period of a potentially deadly combination of heat and humidity. Scientists expect these episodes will increase as temperatures rise...
U.S. census tracts with high exposure to climate impacts will get extra federal funds to build resilience
Nearly every person on the planet saw high temperatures that were made at least twice as likely by climate change this summer
Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI programs—and that’s not the only problem with automated decision-making
Many states prioritize using money from a federal energy assistance program for low-income people to defray energy costs for heating rather than cooling bills
As extreme heat worsens, cities are exploring ways to reach isolated individuals before it’s too late
Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks
A Nobel laureate in economics explains how artificial intelligence will affect inequality—and how solutions such as a shorter work week might mitigate its negative effects
Women in the U.S., India and Nigeria are losing money, economic opportunities and their health as temperatures rise
Floy Agnes Lee came to Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945 knowing nothing of the top secret work on the atomic bomb happening all around her—but she studied the blood of the researchers who did...
