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Machine learning makes a cost-effective environmental watchdog

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Machine learning could help safeguard public health and spot environmental dangers, according to new research. As Hurricane Florence ground its way through North Carolina, it released what might politely be called an excrement storm. Massive hog farm manure pools washed a stew of dangerous bacteria and heavy metals into nearby waterways. More efficient oversight might have prevented some of the worst effects, but even in the best of times, state and federal environmental regulators are overextended and underfunded.