The Carbon Brief Quiz 2026
-
Around 300 scientists, civil servants, journalists and climate experts took part in the 11th annual Carbon Brief quiz on Wednesday 18 March 2026. For the second time, this year’s quiz was hosted by Octopus Energy at its headquarters in central London. In total, 39 teams participated – 25 teams in person and 14 teams joining […]
-
DeBriefed 20 March 2026: Energy crisis deepens | Brazil’s new climate plan | New Zealand climate case
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Iran war fallout continues WORK FROM HOME: The International Energy Agency has advised its member countries to take 10 steps in response to the ongoing energy crisis fuelled by the Iran war, including reducing highway speeds and […]
-
Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food
Just 1% of England’s land will be needed for renewables to help meet the UK’s climate goals by 2050, according to a first-of-its-kind framework. There is enough land in England to meet climate and nature goals, while also producing more food and building new homes, according to the UK government’s new “land-use framework”. Speaking at […]
-
What’s the right path for AI?
by
Who benefits from artificial intelligence? This basic question, which has been especially salient during the AI surge of the last few years, was front and center at a conference at MIT on Wednesday, as speakers and audience members grappled with the many dimensions of AI’s impact. In one of the conferences’s keynote talks, journalist Karen […]
-
MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity
by
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute, and Hasso Plattner Foundation. The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), and Hasso Plattner Foundation celebrated the launch of the MIT and HPI AI […]
-
5 Production Scaling Challenges for Agentic AI in 2026
by
Everyone’s
-
Reducing Material Waste Through Better Design in Industrial Systems
by
Sustainability in manufacturing usually gets brought up in terms of energy use, emissions and recycling, but let’s be clear – all that matters too – although a lot of waste is actually locked in right from the get-go, during the design phase. Before a system so much as gets built, turned on or put into […]
-
Can Better File Conversion Habits Reduce Digital Waste?
by
Most people think of waste as something physical. Plastic packaging. Food scraps. Old electronics. Piles of paper that should have been recycled weeks ago. Digital waste feels different because it is harder to see. A bloated video file does not sit on the kitchen counter. Ten duplicate exports do not spill out of a bin. […]
-
China Briefing 19 March 2026: China joins nuclear pledge | Energy approach ‘vindicated’ | New ecological code
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Key developments Carbon target locked into final five-year plan FEW CHANGES: The final version of China’s 15th five-year plan, published on 13 March, placed renewable energy “centre stage” […]
-
Guest post: How changes to coal mining have affected China’s methane emissions
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is responsible for about 30% of the global temperature increase observed since the industrial revolution. China accounts for more than 10% of annual global human methane emissions, in large part due to unintended releases – known as “fugitive” emissions – from its energy sector. In a recently published study, we take […]
-
A better method for identifying overconfident large language models
by
Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see if the model generates the same answer. But this method measures self-confidence, and even the most impressive LLM might be […]
-
Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions
by
MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items. Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches. […]
-
Carbon Brief Quiz 2026: Picture Round 1 and 2
All answers will need to be submitted via the Google form by the end of the half-time break The post Carbon Brief Quiz 2026: Picture Round 1 and 2 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
-
National Gas sets out plans for 300-mile east coast hydrogen pipeline
by
National Gas has outlined early-stage plans for a 300-mile hydrogen pipeline along England’s east coast, marking what seems a significant step towards a national hydrogen network. In what’s presented as a major step forward for Britain’s hydrogen ambitions, the operator of the UK’s national gas transmission system has unveiled plans for the first phase of […]
-
New initiative recycles electrolysis cell production scrap
by
Ion-exchange membrane process for chlor-alkali electrolysis. A new recycling initiative aims to convert pure titanium scrap generated during the manufacturing of electrolysis cells into a raw material for pure titanium. The approach is designed to reduce the environmental impact of cell production and enhance the value of recovered materials. It has been launched by Asahi […]
-
Comment: Offshore wind’s IP blind spot
by
Lawrence Paleschi is a Senior Associate Patent Attorney at Carpmaels & Ransford LLP. As UK offshore wind pushes further into the North Sea, the territorial limits of patent law are creating a blind spot that developers and innovators can no longer afford to ignore, writes Lawrence Paleschi. The UK offshore wind sector is expanding at […]
-
Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations
by
The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition […]
-
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
by
The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a research team, which demands innovative ideas and direction, creative collaborators, and reliable resources. For a group of MIT faculty working with and on […]