This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the environment in your neck of the woods, all you have to do is ask.

Google Earth AI, a fusion of Google’s Earth and Gemini AI systems, was introduced in July . Part of that effort is an AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations , which turns terabytes of satellite data into useful data layers tracking the history of what happens across the surface of the planet.

The combined system lets users parse historical landscape data that can reveal great shifts in the climate

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