AI in the Environment

by Bernadette Parkhurst-Smith

24 pages, Library Binding

Published December 30, 2025

Reviews

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is a good book that explains the many ways that AI can be used to help the environment--I must admit that even I learned some great things.

My biggest issue with the book (and maybe it's too much to cover in one book?) but this book looks at how AI can aid the environment without addressing the elephant in the room, namely, the fact that using AI is detrimental to the environment....and maybe how we can address THAT for starters.

Otherwise, the book is fine. Good for libraries, like other books like it.

Thank you to NetGalley for this free, advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

[Theediscerning · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seen as an example of a set of four quick reads, this really is the basics of the subject. After pages telling us the simplest of terms, which must cause some repetition with the rest of the series, we look at how AI might drive a recycling sifter, an oceanic plastic clear-up, weather forecasts, and a couple of other things – before the clincher that it's really not very environmentally friendly as a concept and industry itself. While this is probably engaging enough for the younger half of the primary school audience I do think the four books' subjects could easily and more efficiently have been in the same pair of covers. In isolation this isn't great.