AI is helping to tackle climate change: Detecting ocean garbage for removal, deforestation patterns that may be harmful, and icebergs melting the fastest are ways that artificial intelligence is having a positive impact on the world, writes the World Economic Forum. Read about these and five other ways that AI is helping humans be more responsible in their use of the world’s resources.
Waukegan group provides emotional support to Black, Hispanic teen girls: Consider that in Chicago public schools, one third of girls witnessed someone violently assaulted or killed; more than one-third showed signs of PTSD. And half of the girls in a recent survey by the University of Chicago Education Lab said they’d lost someone close to them through violent or sudden death. Some 38 percent of girls in this group showed signs of PTSD. These statistics are why the nonprofit group Working on Womanhood has been running a support group for Black and Hispanic girls in Waukegan, 30 minues north of Chicago, since 2011. Read about the program in The Hechinger Report.
Multicultural, urban teens live in fear of guns, yet desire to have them: A new survey by the nonprofit Project Unloaded says more than four out of five “multicultural urban teens” have completed “little to no research” about gun ownership. Only about 10 percent of those surveyed said they felt safe at a park or at school. And more than half in the survey desire to own a gun in order to feel safer.
