A synthesis of six assessments of first generation of carbon credit projects designed to reduce deforestation has found that although their climate benefits were often oversold tenfold, many played an important role in reducing forest loss.

Researchers suggest improved valuation methods, that better reflect real reductions in deforestation over time, would increase confidence in the critically important market for these credits.

MIT researchers developed a technique that accelerates a privacy-preserving approach for training AI models on edge devices. Their new framework could enable more accurate, efficient, and secure AI models to be used in under-resourced settings.  

University of Arizona researchers launched drones equipped with ground-penetrating radar over debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming that resemble buried ice deposits found on Mars. The team successfully mapped the thickness of rocky debris covering the ice, showing that drone-based radar could one day help scientists locate and access subsurface ice on Mars.