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Colombia and Brazil deadliest countries for environmental activists, report says
Image caption, Juan Lรณpez was one of the environmentalists killed in Latin America recent years. The anti-mining activist was shot in Honduras in 2024. Colombia has again topped the list of countries with the highest number of killings of land and environmental activists, according to an annual report by campaign group Global Witness, external . Out of at least 124 activists killed globally in 2025, 39 were murdered in Colombia, followed by Brazil with 26. Global Witness says that 85% of the documented killings took place in Latin America, making it the deadliest region for every year since the group started publishing its reports in 2012.
Former EPA Officials: Trump Is Letting Data Centers Make People Sick
"Families shouldn't have to pay for the AI boom with their health." The Stargate Oracle AI data center in Abilene, Texas, a project with Open AI, will span roughly 4 million square feet. Completion is expected by year's end. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate threat to our health: the data centers that power those AI models. The former EPA researchers, now working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection Network, are warning in a new report that since January 2025, Donald Trump's EPA has embarked on a systematic weakening of pollution safeguards, permitting processes, inspection norms, and other guardrails--at least 30 different actions--that could increase the health risks associated with the data center boom.
Rare twin lemurs born at New York's Central Park Zoo
Environment Conservation Land Rare twin lemurs born at New York's Central Park Zoo The new Critically Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs are particularly fond of bananas. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Twin black-and-white ruffed lemurs, Maso and Tonga, explore their habitat at Central Park Zoo with their mother, Koa. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .
EPA Boosting Event based Video Frame Interpolation with Perceptually Aligned Learning
Event cameras, with their capacity to provide high temporal resolution information between frames, are increasingly utilized for video frame interpolation (VFI) in challenging scenarios characterized by high-speed motion and significant occlusion. However, prevalent issues of blur and distortion within the keyframes and ground truth data used for training and inference in these demanding conditions are frequently overlooked. This oversight impedes the perceptual realism and multiscene generalization capabilities of existing event-based VFI (E-VFI) methods when generating interpolated frames. Motivated by the observation that semanticperceptual discrepancies between degraded and pristine images are considerably smaller than their image-level differences, we introduce EPA. This novel E-VFI framework diverges from approaches reliant on direct image-level supervision by constructing multilevel, degradation-insensitive semantic perceptual supervisory signals to enhance the perceptual realism and multi-scene generalization of the model's predictions. Specifically, EPA operates in two phases: it first employs a DINO-based perceptual extractor, a customized style adapter, and a reconstruction generator to derive multi-layered, degradation-insensitive semantic-perceptual features (S).