Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting
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Half of nations have met a UN deadline to report on how they are tackling nature loss within their borders, Carbon Brief analysis shows. This includes 11 of the 17 “megadiverse nations”, countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. It also includes all of the G7 nations apart from the US, which is not […]
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Wiltshire pilot explores landfill gas-powered food production
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Crops grown within the giant dome will meet the needs of ten local families, at this stage, in the vision of the group. A pilot project in Wiltshire explores the possibilities of turning landfill sites into low carbon, affordable fruit and vegetable production hubs. Unveiled by Sustain Wiltshire in Royal Wooton Bassett, the project appears […]
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Built for –50°C: Pumps support landmark Antarctic drilling milestone
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This article contains sponsored content. When the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) set out to drill into the most inaccessible and least-understood part of Thwaites Glacier in East Antarctica, they relied on proven technology capable of withstanding extreme cold, isolation and operational intensity (words: Cat Pumps). Thwaites is one of the largest and fastest-changing glaciers in […]
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Energy majors to build hydrogen network in the Humber
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Key industries on both banks of the Humber Estuary can benefit from hydrogen use, said local MP Melanie Onn. A consortium of major energy companies has unveiled plans to develop what might become the UK’s first integrated hydrogen transport and storage network, centred on the Humber industrial region. The project — known as Humber Hydrogen […]
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Geothermal electricity generation commences at United Downs
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United Downs. The UK’s first geothermal power plant generating electricity has gone into operation at United Downs, near Redruth in Cornwall. Its integration with a production facility extracting lithium carbonate from geothermal fluids, and now seemingly at commercial scale, also marks a UK first. Announced on 26 February, a switching-on event was held to commemorate […]
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Sustainable Spring Cleanup in Ithaca: A Practical, Local Guide to Keeping Renovation Waste Out of Landfills
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Spring in Tompkins County carries a particular kind of momentum. Snow retreats, the gorges swell with meltwater, and projects that sat on hold all winter suddenly feel urgent. Homeowners start long-delayed repairs. Contractors kick off jobs that couldn’t run in the cold. Businesses finally tackle refreshes, reorganizations, and buildouts. That seasonal surge is good for […]
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Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics
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During a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Ivy Mahncke, an undergraduate student of robotics engineering at Olin College of Engineering, took a hands-on approach to testing algorithms for underwater navigation. She first discovered her love for working with underwater robotics as an intern at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2024. Drawn by the […]
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Opinion: As Natural Gas Prices Continue To Soar In Colorado, We Must Get Off The Fossil Fuel Roller Coaster
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The post Opinion: As Natural Gas Prices Continue To Soar In Colorado, We Must Get Off The Fossil Fuel Roller Coaster appeared first on Energy Innovation.
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Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding
The Lincolnshire constituency held by Richard Tice, the climate-sceptic deputy leader of the hard-right Reform party, has been pledged at least £55m in government funding for flood defences since 2024. This investment in Boston and Skegness is the second-largest sum for a single constituency from a £1.4bn flood-defence fund for England, Carbon Brief analysis shows. […]
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DeBriefed 27 February 2026: Trump’s fossil-fuel talk | Modi-Lula rare-earth pact | Is there a UK ‘greenlash’?
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Absolute State of the Union ‘DRILL, BABY’: US president Donald Trump “doubled down on his ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda” in his State of the Union (SOTU) address, said the Los Angeles Times. He “tout[ed] his support of […]
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Defending the Climate Science Reference Guide
On January 29, 2026, a coalition of 27 state attorneys general, led by West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey, sent a letter to the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) demanding immediate withdrawal of the “Reference Guide on Climate Science” from the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (“Reference Manual”). Twenty-two of […]
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New method could increase LLM training efficiency
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Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks like advanced programming and multistep planning. But developing reasoning models demands an enormous amount of computation and energy due to inefficiencies in the training process. […]
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Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world
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Have you ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn’t work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like decor and personal accessories, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models can relate. They can produce creative and elaborate 3D designs, but when you try to fabricate such blueprints into real-world objects, they […]
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Cropped 25 February 2026: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate
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 Food inflation on the rise DELUGE STRIKES FOOD: Extreme rainfall and flooding across the Mediterranean and north […]
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Digital Delegation Is an Underused Sustainability Lever for Entrepreneurs
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Most sustainability discussions in business still center on the “big three”: supply chains, materials, and offsets. Those matter—especially for product companies. But for many modern entrepreneurs, the fastest, least expensive emissions reductions sit closer to home: how the business runs day to day. Office space, commuting patterns, administrative workflows, and the physical “stuff” required to […]
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AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology
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Studying gene expression in a cancer patient’s cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer’s origin and predict the success of different treatments. But cells are complex and contain many layers, so how the biologist conducts measurements affects which data they can obtain. For instance, measuring proteins in a cell could yield different information about the […]
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Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy
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Originally from the small Balkan country of Montenegro, Strahinja (Strajo) Janjusevic says his life has unfolded in unexpected ways, for which he is deeply grateful. After graduating from high school, he was selected to represent his country in the United States, studying cyber operations and computer science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. […]
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Fossil Fuel Companies’ Appeal in Boulder Climate Case but Asks for Briefing on Threshold Jurisdiction Questions
“Supreme Court” by Mark Fischer, CC BY-SA 2.0 Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court granted three fossil fuel companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion allowing the County Commissioners of Boulder County and the City of Boulder (together, Boulder) to proceed with their state-law claims that the companies […]