The paper evaluates the green benefits of individual AI modules within a smart‑agriculture platform through two Monte Carlo simulations. In Experiment 1, AI diagnosis significantly increases the likelihood of reducing pesticide and fertilizer use compared to traditional extension services, with up to a 49 % probability of a 20 % pesticide reduction when accuracy and adoption are high. Experiment 2 shows that adding AI irrigation scheduling to IoT‑based engineering yields a 5 percentage‑point increase in median water savings and a 30.5 % reduction in paddy methane emissions, while farmer adoption remains the key limiting factor for achieving green targets.
By Zhaoyang Li, Ruijie Zhang, Zhaoji Sun, Lu Zhang
arXiv:2509. 01924v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agricultural decision-making faces a dual challenge: sustaining high yields to meet global food security needs while reducing the environmental impacts of input use, including fertilizer losses and other agrochemical applications such as herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides.
By Sakshi Arya, Wentao Lin
arXiv:2608. 07801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precision nitrogen (N) management (PNM) for cotton requires in-season monitoring of crop growth parameters and N status indicators to decide fertilizer timing, placement, and application rates for optimal canopy development and yield.
By Vaishali Swaminathan, Nithya Rajan, J Alex Thomasson, Amrit Shrestha, Karem Meza Capcha, Robert Hardin, Pramod Pokhrel
The paper introduces FAIRY, a full-stack smart‑agriculture agent system deployed on a soybean research farm at Harbin Institute of Technology. FAIRY executes and evaluates end‑to‑end agronomic operations—from ridge preparation to storage—using an event‑driven world model that integrates machinery, sensors, drones, satellite data, weather, crop models, and historical yields. The system implements a comprehensive agentic stack and is used to benchmark nine state‑of‑the‑art agent controllers across 100 full‑season soybean scenarios, assessing success, spatiotemporal correctness, token cost, and edge‑device runtime.
By Ao Qu, Panagiotis Michelakis, Linyuan Han, Yiannis Hadjiyianni, Kun Ouyang, Konstantinos Siskos, Feng Li, Ran Meng, Jingchi Jiang, Dimitrios Stamoulis, Jie Liu
arXiv:2607. 23880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nitrous oxide (N$_2$O) is the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century, and the third largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gases due to its high potency and long atmospheric lifetime, with more than 70% of N$_2$O emissions occurring as a result of agricultural processes.
By Freddy Yu, Jashanjeet Kaur Dhaliwal, Subhadeep Chakraborty
arXiv:2605. 03648v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To understand complex system dynamics in dairy farming requires tools that capture farm heterogeneity, social interactions, and cumulative environmental impacts.
By Surya Jayakumar, Kieran Sullivan, John McLaughlin, Christine OMeara, Indrakshi Dey
arXiv:2606. 28992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong abilities in opendomain question answering, information extraction, and text generation.
By Zhaoyang Li, Ruijie Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Zhaoji Sun
The paper presents a hybrid model that combines a four‑parameter water‑balance core with a Random Forest residual correction and conformal prediction to generate 90‑percent confidence intervals for soil moisture forecasts. The risk‑aware rule uses the lower bound of these intervals to trigger irrigation decisions, improving early detection of management‑threshold crossings while maintaining precision. Evaluation on three years of hourly data from a Mediterranean cropland station shows the hybrid outperforms nine baselines, achieving up to +27.4 % skill at three hours and demonstrating that uncertainty quantification dictates the reliable lead time for irrigation advice.
By Andrea Scariolo
arXiv:2512. 21066v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) reveals how explanatory variables relate to a response variable, yet communicating XAI outputs to laypersons remains difficult, limiting trust in AI-based predictions.
By Tomoaki Yamaguchi, Yutong Zhou, Masahiro Ryo, Keisuke Katsura
arXiv:2608. 09949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study evaluates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex biological systems, evolving from data analysis to autonomous, AI-guided experimentation.
By Serge Kernbach
arXiv:2606. 12821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental scientists spend disproportionate effort on data wrangling rather than analysis, and AI agents that automate geospatial workflows remain unvalidated: no benchmark evaluates agents operating through structured tool calling against real APIs.
By Gabriel Diaz-Ireland, Diego Prieto-Herr\'aez, Mario Garc\'ia Peces, Javier Vel\'azquez, Devika Jain
The paper reviews 194 papers on using artificial intelligence to optimize data center energy use, coding 63 of them. It finds that most control studies validate only in simulation, none consider water withdrawal or embodied carbon, and savings estimates overlap across methods, preventing ranking. The authors propose CLEAR‑DC, a framework that links control and workload demand through elasticity, reports net benefits, and records energy, carbon, water, embodied share, and validation venue.
By Mohammed Basharath Ullah, Summaiya Unnisa Begum, Mohammed Nadeem Ullah