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Print article Share Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis. The US-Iran war has severely disrupted trade through the strait of Hormuz, causing a spike in oil and gas prices that continues to ripple around the global economy. […]
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New National Academies of Sciences’ Report on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Highlights the Need for Governance Reforms
The new Limiting Overshoot report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) paints a grim picture. Global warming is likely to exceed 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels within the next decade and could reach as high as 3.6oC by 2100. Still, UNEP is adamant that we must not give up on the 1.5oC target, and […]
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Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Flatlining fossils Clean-energy growth matches power demand Which states led the clean-power shift? Fall in oil and gas consumption continues Rapid emission growth from heavy industry continues New investments in coal Outlook for India’s emissions About the data A surge in clean energy has kept carbon dioxide […]
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xAI Adds Cross-Session Memory to Grok Build Coding Agent
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xAI on September 16, 2026 announced cross-session memory for Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, a feature that records conventions, decisions, and project facts as markdown notes in the background and reads them back in later sessions. Memory is available in Grok Build now and applies to new sessions. xAI says the agent keeps notes […]
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Anthropic Policy Chief: AI Safety Can’t Rely on an Honor Code
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Sarah Heck, Anthropic’s head of public policy, said at POLITICO’s Decoded Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2026, that AI companies cannot be left to police themselves on an honor code, pressing for government rules addressing existential AI risk while arguing that the United States must keep its AI lead over China. Heck rejected […]
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OpenAI Launches Misalignment Reporting Framework With Six Incident Reports
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OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment on September 16, 2026, alongside six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior the company said it observed during the training or evaluation of its models. OpenAI said its past misalignment disclosures were ad hoc: it often waited to collate several instances into […]
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House Passes Ratepayer Protection Act on Data Center Power Costs
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The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, 2026, voting 417 to 3 to require state utility regulators to consider standards that make large data center customers pay the full cost of the grid upgrades built to serve them. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Subcommittee on Energy Chairman […]
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Z.ai Details GLM-5.3-Flash Inference Build on 100,000 Chinese Chips
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Z.ai on September 17, 2026 published a technical account describing how it built a complete production-grade inference service for its GLM-5.3-Flash model from scratch on a cluster of more than 100,000 Chinese-made AI accelerators. According to the company, much of the work was carried out by an Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3 rather than by […]
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AI boom raises prospect of new surge in PFAS production
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Semiconductor manufacturing is among the industries driving demand for PFAS, which are used in a range of chip-production processes. Rapid growth in AI infrastructure could contribute to a substantial expansion in global production of PFAS, according to new research from chemicals campaign group ChemSec, as manufacturers invest in additional capacity to serve semiconductor, data-centre and […]
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Composite recycling start-up looks to give wind turbine blades a second life
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Sustainable Extricko founders Joe and Sam Penhaul Smith. A Derbyshire start-up developing technology to recycle hard-to-process composite materials is targeting the wind energy market as it moves towards commercialisation and prepares to build its first recycling unit. Sustainable Extricko was founded by brothers Joe and Sam Penhaul Smith to tackle waste from the sailing industry. […]
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United Utilities deploys 330 smart pumps in CSO programme
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Control equipment for one of the intelligent wastewater pumping systems being deployed by United Utilities. United Utilities is deploying 330 intelligent wastewater pumping systems across north-west England as part of its programme to reduce storm-overflow spills, in what’s said to be one of the largest UK rollouts of the technology. The utility has partnered with […]
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Inescapable? new book sizes up the toxic legacy of PFAS
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Aerial view of pulp and paper mill: Schauffler cites an estimate from one manufacturer that 90% of PFAS used in paper treatment could ultimately enter sludge, with the remainder passing into wastewater effluent. The title of F. Marina Schauffler’s Inescapable offers a nod to both the physical characteristics of PFAS and the predicament into which […]
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High-temperature heat pump targets industrial process heat
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The Sabroe HitemHP industrial heat pump is designed to deliver hot water at temperatures up to 122°C for high-temperature process applications. A new range of industrial heat pumps capable of delivering hot water at temperatures up to 122°C has been launched by Johnson Controls, targeting the electrification of process heat in sectors including food and […]
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’
Print article Share Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). Emissions from flying have more than doubled since 1990 – driven by rising passenger numbers – even as the climate impact of every other sector in the […]
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Measure by measure, studying society accurately
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Let’s agree at the outset the world is a complicated place, and social scientists have exacting jobs when it comes to measuring civic phenomena with precision. After all, even careful studies raise follow-up questions: How much do their findings apply in other settings? Do conclusions about politics in one country apply to other countries? If […]
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Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy
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El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century
Print article Share Wildfires currently burning large swathes of land in Indonesia are on track to produce emissions on a par with the country’s most-intense fire season this century, according to experts. Data from the Global Fire Emissions Database reveals that, as of 7 September, fires in Indonesia produced 76m tonnes of carbon (MtC) in […]
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Environmental Review Before and After 9/11
As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I dug out an article that I wrote two months after the event, “The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the World Trade Center and the Fate of New York.” Here it is. Reading it for the first time in a quarter of a […]
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