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Gen Z Innovators Develop AI Watercraft to Detect Oil Spills

In an inspiring move towards environmental preservation, a group of young innovators has created a groundbreaking watercraft that employs AI and machine learning to detect oil spills. Featured in a recent segment of 24 Oras’ “Let’s Change the Game,” this initiative addresses urgent environmental challenges facing the Philippines, particularly in light of recent oil spill incidents. This article delves into the technology behind the Oil Seeker, the challenges it aims to tackle, and its potential impact on marine conservation. The Urgent Need

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Petroperú’s Financial Crisis Threatens Oil Spill Remediation Efforts

  In September 2022, Olivia Bisa Tirko received distressing news: an oil spill had occurred in the Chapra Nation’s territory in the Peruvian Amazon. The North Peruvian Pipeline, operated by the state-owned Petroperú, had ruptured, releasing 2,500 barrels of oil into the Marañón River, a key Amazon tributary. “For us, it was a catastrophe,” Bisa Tirko, President of the Chapra Nation’s autonomous government, recounted during a video call with Mongabay. “Seeing this disaster in the place where you grew up,