The SEC proposed rescinding its 2024 climate-disclosure rules in full, opening a 60-day comment period after Federal Register publication. The action would remove greenhouse-gas, climate-risk and severe-weather disclosure mandates from registration statements and annual reports if finalized.
Google said on Mar 19, 2026 that it integrated AI contrail forecasts into American Airlines’ existing flight-planning software. Across a trial tied to 2,400 scheduled transatlantic flights, the company says flights that executed the avoidance plan saw a 62% lower contrail formation rate than the control group.
Google on Mar 12, 2026 introduced Groundsource, a Gemini-powered method for turning public reports into historical disaster data. The company says the system identified more than 2.6 million flood events across over 150 countries and now supports urban flash-flood forecasts up to 24 hours in advance.
Google Research says its March 12, 2026 rollout adds urban flash flood forecasts to Flood Hub with up to 24 hours of advance notice. The system is trained in part on Groundsource, a dataset built by using Gemini to extract structured flood events from public news reports.