LLMs in Environmental Science: Applications and Opportunities

1Key Takeaways

• Environmental science runs on heterogeneous data.
• Researchers routinely synthesize decades of climate literature, parse unstructured field reports, and interpret satellite imagery, often within the same project.
• Large language models can accelerate this work, but the cost structure of traditional token-based inference becomes prohibitive when a single prompt includes a full research paper or a high-resolution image captioning task.
• A request-based pricing model changes the economics, ma.