Ecosia Partners with AccuWeather to bring Superior Weather Information and Unique Global Severe Weather Alerts to Users

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As part of the partnership, AccuWeather’s API has been integrated into Ecosia’s results for weather data, including Current Conditions, and Daily and Hourly Forecasts, and up-to-the-minute Alerts for locations in the U.S. and around the globe, all built on AccuWeather’s superior collection of global, detailed, and local weather data to help people and companies make the best weather-impacted decisions.

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Ecosia users will be able to view the new weather tool on mobile and desktop devices, simply by searching for the location they desire and adding “weather” as the search key term. In addition to hourly, daily and weekly weather forecasts, the product integration will alert users to severe weather events including dangerous high and low temperatures. The partnership also showcases the unique AccuWeather Air Quality Scale that helps individuals quickly understand the impact air pollution exposure will have on their health, helping them make the best decisions about air quality risks around the world."

Ecosia, as an organization, plans to use the integration to help drive its own coordinated efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Ecosia announced a partnership with AI-powered satellite interpretation and reforesting company Kanop to significantly enhance its forest regeneration tracking earlier this year.

The partnership with AccuWeather expands Ecosia’s access to real-time weather and climate data to help inform future locations of urban tree-planting projects. AccuWeather’s powerful weather data is the cleanest and most accurate set of past, current, and forecast weather conditions with the greatest temporal resolution (minutes or hours), greatest spatial resolution (downscaled to 1 km) and greatest number of parameters (300) available. AccuWeather APIs offer developers access to its superior collection of global, detailed, and local weather data, accessible in over 200 languages and dialects.

The data will help Ecosia to identify areas with extremely high urban temperatures and identify areas with low or no tree-cover. Ecosia’s UK team is also planning to use AccuWeather data to in part monitor the health of its NHS tree-planting projects, which were planted in 2020 as a tribute to the UK’s health service during the COVID pandemic.

AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter: “Extreme and severe weather events in the United States and around the world are becoming more frequent, having a greater impact, and affecting places where people may not be as prepared to handle them. The amplification of some of these severe weather events are one of the ways people around the world are experiencing climate change.”

“We’ve seen with climate change that severe weather threats, including extreme heat, are happening outside of the time of year and places that people typically associate with heat waves,” Porter went on to say. “Do not be lulled into any false sense of security. A severe weather event can develop anywhere when the ingredients come together."

About AccuWeather

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 10,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

About Ecosia

Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Ecosia is the world’s largest not-for-profit search engine, with 20 million users globally. The tech company dedicates 100% of its profits to the planet and has collaborated with local communities in over 35 countries to plant more than 200 million trees. In 2014 Ecosia was the first company in Germany to be accredited as a B Corporation and in 2017 it built the first of a growing portfolio of solar plants, which now produce enough energy to power all searches twice over.