Swiss research consortium Apertus released a fully open large language model trained on renewable energy and built to comply with the EU AI Act. Here's why it matters for a more sustainable, sovereign approach to AI.

Participants in make-a-thek workshops learn how to repair old clothes instead of throwing them away, promoting a more circular society.

‘Plastic Pirates' turns pupils into researchers: by collecting plastic waste, they generate data that helps the scientific community.

If we know where whales are, we can take targeted protective measures, such as diverting ships and reducing sources of noise. OrcaHello helps to track the animals.

With the AURORA app, citizens can track their carbon footprint and invest in solar panel installation to reduce their emissions even further.

According to a new study by SolarMoves, vehicle-integrated photovoltaics offer great potential for decarbonising our transport.

In Heidelberg and Worms, the shaded.ors app is already helping people navigate the shade. However, HeiGIT’s routing application can also be adapted for use in other cities – and has the potential to become an important tool for climate adaptation.

Some municipalities are moving quickly to make Europe digitally independent from US tech, but civil initiatives are left to fill in the gaps where there is little political will.

Conservationists are behind mountain gorillas' numbers rising to a still precarious 1,063. However, a new digital alliance could boost them even further.