Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024
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Clean-energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s economic growth in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan ($1.9tn). Clean-energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and have overtaken real-estate sales in value. The new sector-by-sector analysis for Carbon Brief, based […]
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StealthGPT Review: Can It Really Fool AI Detectors?
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Have you ever spent hours carefully writing something, only to have an AI detector flag it as machine-generated? It can be frustrating. With AI writing tools becoming more advanced, so are the detection systems trying to spot them. That’s where StealthGPT comes in! StealthGPT is an AI tool that not only generates high-quality content but […]
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Student Writing Competition: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Law and Policy
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, together with New York Sea Grant, is pleased to announce a writing competition for law students interested in writing on legal and policy issues associated with marine carbon dioxide removal. The competition is being held in connection with a one-day symposium on the topic […]
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Beyond Manual Labeling: How ProVision Enhances Multimodal AI with Automated Data Synthesis
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed industries, making processes more intelligent, faster, and efficient. The data quality used to train AI is critical to its success. For this data to be useful, it must be labelled accurately, which has traditionally been done manually. Manual labelling, however, is often slow, error-prone, and expensive. The need for precise […]
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Robert Pierce, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer at DecisionNext – Interview Series
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Bob Pierce, PhD is co-founder and Chief Science Officer at DecisionNext. His work has brought advanced mathematical analysis to entirely new markets and industries, improving the way companies engage in strategic decision making. Prior to DecisionNext, Bob was Chief Scientist at SignalDemand, where he guided the science behind its solutions for manufacturers. Bob has held […]
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Bipartisan Strategies To Build A Strong American Industry
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£4.7 million from Innovate UK will support networks to conduct regulatory science
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Innovate UK has committed an additional £4.7 million to support 11 new networks focused on advancing regulatory science. The initiative aims to help policymakers keep pace with rapid technological developments by providing new tools, datasets, and approaches to regulation. Regulatory frameworks play a key role in shaping innovation, providing confidence to businesses and investors while […]
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Wastewater analysis at Bolivian lithium deposit explores how to avoid past environmental mistakes
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The Salar de Uyuni covers an area of over a million hectares on a high plateau in Bolivia (image credit: Avner Vengosh/Duke University). A US group has conducted the first thorough chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the lithium brine at the Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia. Their findings could inform strategies to manage […]
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Council approves plans for Electric Arc Furnace in Port Talbot
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Sustainable steel solutions firm Tenova has been contracted to supply the Port Talbot site with an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF). On 18 February Neath Port Talbot Council’s Planning Committee approved Tata Steel UK’s proposals to deliver state-of-the-art Electric Arc Furnace steelmaking in Port Talbot. Rajesh Nair, CEO of Tata Steel UK, said: “We are very […]
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany
As part of a series series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief profiles Germany – the nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Germany has a long history as an industrial powerhouse and it remains a centre of European manufacturing. As of 2023, it had the […]
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St Austell and Newquay MP visits local biogas plant
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Mr Noah Law MP visits the Fraddon Biogas Plant on 31 January. Last week, Noah Law MP spoke to industry guests at the Eden Project about the need for Government to ensure biogas meets its potential in delivering Britain’s clean energy needs. The local MP for St Austell and Newquay had previously visited the Fraddon […]
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Veolia is saving 12GWh of gas per year using a new distillate product
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Resource management firm Veolia says it is now saving 12GWh of gas use per year by using a new distillate product as a fuel for the steam plant that supports the solvent recovery operations at its Garston, Liverpool facility. By developing and testing the new fuel, and using it as a substitute for fossil fuel, […]
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Joy and anger and hope: youth climate activism
Friends, we are in the midst of a coup. The things happening in Washington D.C. these days are unconstitutional and illustrate how little our elected officials actually understand the complexities of our federal administrations. It is terrifying on many levels. I think we need to stop asking people if they believe in climate change and […]
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Dr. Ashish Agarwal, Co-Founder & CTO of WRMS – Interview Series
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Ashish Agarwal is an accomplished Chief Technology Officer with extensive experience in the industrial automation industry. He has a robust skill set encompassing software development, start-ups, mobile payments, embedded systems, and mobile devices. Ashish co-founded Weather Risk Management Services Pvt. Ltd. (WRMS) and has been serving as the Chief Technology Officer since January 2016. In […]
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AlphaGeometry2: The AI That Outperforms Human Olympiad Champions in Geometry
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Artificial intelligence has long been trying to mimic human-like logical reasoning. While it has made massive progress in pattern recognition, abstract reasoning and symbolic deduction have remained tough challenges for AI. This limitation becomes especially evident when AI is being used for mathematical problem-solving, a discipline that has long been a testament to human cognitive […]
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In real-time sewer control, we trust
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The importance of building trust in real-time controls systems for sewer networks will be explored in a roundtable at World Water-Tech, hosted by Chengzi Chew, chief intrapreneur at Grundfos FutureLab, who shares his thoughts in a Q&A ahead of the event. The title of your roundtable at World Water-Tech is – Overcoming trust issues: what […]
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Working out a sustainable future for the British flower industry
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A flower shop in Frome, Somerset in May 2024 (image credit: Alla Tsyganova / Shutterstock.com). (Words: The University of Surrey) There is a sustainable future for the British flower industry – but it has to start with recognition that the current model is fuelling the environmental crisis through carbon emissions and agrochemical pollution emitted through […]
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Work concludes on the Thames Tideway Tunnel
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Tower Bridge: One of the locations passed by the tunnel on its 25-km path between Acton Storm Tanks (West London) and Stratford. Tideway, the firm responsible for delivering London’s “super sewer”, the Thames Tideway Tunnel, announced its successful activation, on 14 February. After ten years of construction the last of 21 connections has been made […]