Stronger waste prevention measures needed to accelerate the Nordic transition to a circular economy

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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Collecting clothing for recycling (image credit: Getty Images/Maskot). More systematic waste prevention strategies are needed to achieve regional and national sustainability goals in Scandinavia, according to a new report. It outlines practical measures to strengthen the circular economy in the Nordics, with a particular focus on waste prevention and reuse. The Nordic Council of Ministers […]

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If 2022 was the year that generative AI captured a wider public’s imagination, 2025 is the year where the new breed of generative video frameworks coming from China seems set to do the same. Tencent’s Hunyuan Video has made a major impact on the hobbyist AI community with its open-source release of a full-world video […]

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In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway, practicing “base recovery” protocol after a simulated attack. For hours, his team walked over the area in chemical protection gear, radioing in geocoordinates as they documented damage and looked for […]

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AI has been replete with false claims since its inception, fueled in part by a widespread knowledge gap. Those without a technical background may struggle to distinguish between terms like generative AI, symbolic AI, or Agentic AI, and we’ve seen technology companies take advantage of this by claiming to offer capabilities they don’t actually provide. […]

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Fraud and cybersecurity threats are escalating at an alarming rate. Businesses lose an estimated 5% of their annual revenue to fraud. The digital transformation of financial services, e-commerce, and enterprise security has created new vulnerabilities that cybercriminals exploit with increasing sophistication. Traditional security measures, which rely on static rule-based systems, often fail to keep up […]

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 Trump’s logging orders IF A TREE FALLS: US president Donald Trump last week signed a pair of […]

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Concerns about AI replacing humans – especially in the workplace – are not new. Many AI skeptics point to signs of the transforming workforce as justification for their hesitations around AI, like the 40% of companies that plan to reduce their workforces as AI capabilities expand. Statistics like this aren’t cause for concern – they […]

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The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. Major contributions came from the closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire and one of its last blast […]

UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek This blog post is Part 3 of a three-part series highlighting the main legal arguments presented during the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for an advisory opinion regarding the obligations of States with respect to climate change. Part 1 focused on discussions on applicable […]

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A product for the removal of micro-pollutants from wastewater is the Overall Winner of the Aquatech Innovation Award 2025. Aurea from consulting engineers Royal HaskoningDHV was developed in the Netherlands, and its selection for this award followed an independent review led by jury chairman Professor Cees Buisman, Scientific Director of Wetsus, a European centre of […]

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Time series forecasting is a statistical technique used to analyze historical data points and predict future values based on temporal patterns.

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Shops on Buchanan Street, Glasgow in 2024 (image credit: Graeme J Baty / Shutterstock.com). Scottish businesses are feeling the squeeze from rising energy costs, with nearly nine in ten (88%) saying it has impacted them – and 62% reporting a significant impact. New research* conducted by Diffley Partnership and Stratcom UK commissioned by Octopus Energy […]

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The quantity of aviation fuel spilled from the Stena Immaculate is not yet known (note: image shown is generic). Speculation was continuing on the morning of Wednesday 12 March into the cause and likely impacts of the North Sea collision. The 183-m oil tanker Stena Immaculate had been anchored off Withernsea, near Kingston-upon-Hull, when she […]

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Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science fiction or a magic world, but a real world where scientists have been striving to achieve this goal for years. These sequences, made up of four nucleotides (A, T, C, and G), contain […]

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Matrices are a key concept not only in linear algebra but also with regard to their prominent application and use in machine learning (ML) and data science.

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AI-driven solutions are rapidly being adopted across diverse industries, services, and products every day. However, their effectiveness depends entirely on the quality of the data they are trained on – an aspect often misunderstood or overlooked in the dataset creation process. As data protection authorities increase scrutiny on how AI technologies align with privacy and […]

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Have you ever spent hours sorting through messy spreadsheets or digging through emails just to collect information? Whether you’re running a business, planning an event, or gathering customer feedback, the way you collect and manage information can make or break your success. I recently came across Jotform, a powerful, user-friendly form builder that over 10 […]