You’ve heard of using AI to make art, but an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong is now tackling a far more complex problem: applying AI to the field of art conservation.

Forests aren’t the only fragile ecosystems at risk from climate change. In the right conditions, Sargassum, a kind of macroalgae, can trap vast amounts of carbon and store it at the bottom of the ocean. But what happens when those conditions change?  The University…

When most people look at a forest, they see an example of nature at its best, a planetary lung that is one of our most reliable defences against climate change. But University of Hong Kong Professor Jin Wu sees something…

In just 40 years, China went from a predominantly rural society to a highly urbanised one. What happened? And what lessons can other urbanising regions around the globe draw from that experience?  University of Hong Kong Professor of landscape architecture Bin Chen…

Could satellites one day help us solve pressing socioeconomic problems like food insecurity? What if they could directly tell farmers when to fertilise their crops? Or how much water they should use to irrigate?   It sounds like science fiction, but…