AI counts 1.8B trees in Sahara Desert

Huh. I clicked through expecting a story about a glitch in an AI, but this is rather uplifting. I hadn't thought about such a use case. Cool.

I wonder if there's a grand, collated global carbon budget published...

...a bit of quick googling before posting this, and there is! More than one, in fact!

https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/11/1783/2019/ https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/19/files/GC...