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Today, on the 60 th anniversary of the historic first ascent of Mount Everest, mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears and his foundation GlacierWorks have teamed up with Internet Explorer to launch Everest: Rivers of Ice . This immersive, exploration platform allows visitors to travel the peaks and...

This week, The Guardian published an article that ties climate change to real health concerns. As the article points out, as a society, we are much more inclined to take preventative action when it directly impacts our own health and well-being. By casting environmental concerns in the terms of public...

This week Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of top U.S. companies, published its 2013 report on how many of the U.S.’s top companies are addressing sustainability challenges. The report includes a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who outlines how Microsoft...

Eight years ago, the world watched in shock as Hurricane Katrina caused insurmountable damage to the U.S. Gulf Coast. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that storm surges such as the one seen during Katrina, are directly related to climate...

Last Thursday evening our very own TJ DiCaprio was awarded the Environmental Protection Agency Individual Climate Leadership Award for the work she has done to reduce carbon pollution and address climate change as Microsoft’s Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability. TJ was recognized for...

Last week I sat down with my colleague TJ DiCaprio, a senior director of environmental sustainability at Microsoft and the chief architect of our internal carbon fee. Over the last six months, we’ve received lots of questions about how things are going, what we’ve learned and what’s...

This week SmartPlanet reported on new research from Pike Research, which found that by 2020, the market value of the smart city industry will reach $20.3 billion, up from the current $6.3 billion value. It is expected that by 2050, there will be 6.3 billion people living in cities, making energy efficiency...

Last week Microsoft Research’s Drew Purves published an article in Nature (paid access) about how computer modeling can help map the planet’s ecosystems and better understand threats to biodiversity; we blogged about the article in this post . Today our friends over at ClimateDesk published...

In his second inaugural address, President Obama gave prominent attention to the threat of climate change. Washington Post’s Wonkblog offered a detailed look on how climate factored in the President’s speech, which explains how the nation should confront global warming. Despite promising...

What if there was a giant computer model that could dramatically enhance our understanding of the environment and lead to policy decisions that better support conservation and biodiversity? A team of researchers at Microsoft Research are building just such a model that one day may eventually do just...

The New York Times reported that 2012 was the hottest year on record for the United States. A report released Tuesday by NOAA reported the average temperature was a full degree Fahrenheit higher than the previous record, set in 1998. Over the course of the year, 34,008 daily high records were set at...

This week, CIO compiled a list of the Top 12 Big Data Stories of 2012 , explaining how Big Data emerged into the news cycle with attention to how organizations can use their data assets as a competitive advantage. Big Data is a trend expected to continue to grow and develop in 2013. In addition, GreenBiz...