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We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Key developments Amazon updates RECORD-LOW LOSS: Amazon deforestation rates have fallen to their lowest level since 2019, according to […]
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Q&A: How UK’s seventh carbon budget will deliver ‘£865bn’ in economic benefits
The Labour government wants to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040, which it says will deliver £865bn in economic benefits. The target has been set out in draft legislation for the seventh “carbon budget”, a legally binding limit on emissions during the five-year period from 2038-2042. The government says […]
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MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts
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To accelerate and refine decision-making in a fast-paced, global marketplace, enterprises may deploy generative artificial intelligence models to help summarize and interpret the charts that often fill market summaries and financial reports. But even the latest vision-language models sometimes struggle with this task, since it requires a model to integrate visual, numerical, and linguistic understanding. […]
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Why Civil Construction Is Vital for Infrastructure Projects
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Civil construction builds the roads, bridges, drains, pipes and public spaces people use each day. It keeps towns moving. It helps homes, farms and local firms stay linked. It also helps growing areas deal with more people, more trucks and heavy rain. This work is very important in Toowoomba and the Darling Downs. The area […]
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Tips for Finishing and Powder Coating Your Laser Cut Aluminium Components
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A clean finish on aluminium rarely comes down to the final pass in the oven.It starts earlier, in the small decisions that shape how the material behaves once heat is applied. With laser-cut aluminium, those decisions determine everything.The cut edge, the alloy, and even the way the part is handled between steps all leave their […]
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Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies will need to be deployed at rates even faster than those seen for solar power, if the world is to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by 2100, says a new report. Nearly all pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s highest ambition of keeping global temperatures to […]
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Data Center Regulation: What Local Governments Should Know about Large-Load Tariffs and Clean Transition Tariffs
The proliferation of data centers across the United States represents new “loads” (i.e., sources of demand) on the electrical grid. Data centers require enormous amounts of energy to power and cool their computing systems that operate continuously or near-continuously. To meet this demand, new energy infrastructure—both generation and transmission—will need to be developed. For local […]
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Colossal crane lifts second reactor into place at Hinkley Point C
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The polar crane lowers the reactor into place within the building. The world’s largest land-based crane1 has lifted the second reactor pressure vessel into place at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, marking a major milestone in the construction of Britain’s first new nuclear power station in a generation.2, 3 The 500-tonne […]
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Small farming finds its way in the Caribbean 🇵🇷🌴🥭
Climate Solutions // ISSUE # 106 // HOTHOUSE Hello dear readers, It’s been a moment. I have sat down to draft a note to you a half dozen times over the last five months, but I struggled to find the words. Truth be told, I’m still looking for them. What I can […]
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Climate Disclosure in Retreat
At every level of government, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure regulations that saw meaningful progress only a few years ago are now in retreat. Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rescinding its 2024 corporate climate-disclosure rule, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul persuaded legislators to weaken the state’s landmark climate law, the […]
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Plugging In: Harnessing Solar For Industrial Electrification
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The post Plugging In: Harnessing Solar For Industrial Electrification appeared first on Energy Innovation.
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U.S. Electricity Bills Are Rising Fast: Which States Are Paying More–and Why
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Electricity bills are skyrocketing across the country and various motives are blamed for the rise – everything from the data center boom to volatile fossil fuel prices to federal policies. But the truth of what’s increasing electricity bills is more complicated than a single reason. Electricity cost increases are driven by a complex web of […]
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DeBriefed 29 May 2026: Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May | Indian heat deaths | Nigeria’s solar mini-grids
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week UK, Europe and India battle heatwaves ‘MIND-BOGGLING’ MAY: The UK and continental Europe have set “mind-boggingly crazy” temperature records for May amid a deadly heatwave, reported the Financial Times. According to the Associated Press, the UK “smashed […]
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AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China
The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A rapid expansion of data centres across the nation is at the heart of the US tech sector’s plans to continue “dominat[ing]” the global artificial intelligence (AI) industry. […]
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A tale of fire and folly: Vape recycling lottery leaves millions of devices uncollected
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One year on from the 1st June 2025 ban on the sale of disposable vapes, electricals recycling not-for-profit Material Focus warns that a ”retailer recycling lottery” is undermining the environmental intentions behind the ban as recycling a vape is still not as easy as it is to buy one. New research reveals that while the […]
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EM-DAT: Trump aid cuts could close database storing ‘world’s memory of disasters’
The world’s most comprehensive disaster database – relied on by thousands of climate scientists and policymakers – is at risk of closing as a result of cuts to US foreign aid by the Trump administration. The “emergency events” database (EM-DAT) has for 30 years provided free-to-use information on the size and impact of extreme weather […]
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Building a Context Pruning Pipeline for Long-Running Agents
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Modern AI agents built on top of large language models (LLMs) are designed to run continuously.
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Brighton approves city-wide smoke control zone in crackdown on wood-burning pollution
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Image credit: cktravels.com / Shutterstock.com Brighton & Hove City Council has approved the creation of a single city-wide Smoke Control Area (SCA) as part of efforts to reduce particulate pollution linked to domestic wood burning. The council’s cabinet approved the measure on 14 May, with the decision formally published the following day. The move will […]
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