Issue: December 2026

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Figure 1: iStock.com/Justin Viens. Without modern automated detection systems that use AI-powered cameras, reporting fires in many rural areas depends solely on passersby who spot smoke or flames and call 911. Here, people are shown watching a fire that is already clearly visible.

Panoramic AI Cameras Spot Wildfires in Remote Areas

October 28, 2026

In 2024, a brush fire broke out near Cherry Grove, Oregon, a rural community southwest of Portland with more than 300 residents and sometimes spotty

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Figure 1: iStock.com/imfeng. Harvesting cereal crops in the Caledon area, near Toronto. In Canada, farmers are testing plasma-activated nitrogen fertilizer as a cleaner, locally produced alternative to traditional synthetic fertilizers.

Cleaner Fertilizer Hits the Fields

October 28, 2026

Over 10 years ago, an environmental chemist in Holland dreamed of the day that water sprayed through an electric field might provide a climate-friendly way

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