''Curupira'' developed by the State University of Amazonas to help combat forest deforestation in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. Small, artificially intelligent boxes are tied to tree trunks to identify the sounds of machinery used to deforest the forest and issue alerts in real time via a long-range communication network. Photo by MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images.on the use of artificial intelligence to combat climate change.
“This approach makes it possible to quantify the actual amount of carbon that forests are absorbing from the air,” McCormick adds. “This data is at very high spatial resolution , which makes it possible to monitor actual carbon removal from specific carbon dioxide removal forestry projects that have issued credits.