Google's new sustainability APIs can estimate solar, pollutant and pollen production

Way back in 2015, Google launched Project Sunroof, an ingenious Maps layer that combined location, sunlight and navigation data to show how much energy solar panels installed on a home's roof might generate -- it could be your house, could be your neighbor's, didn't matter because Google mapped it out for virtually every house on the planet. This was a clever way to both help advance the company's environmental sustainability efforts and show off the platform's technical capabilities. On Tuesday...