PurAffinity signs first commercial agreement for full-scale deployment of its PFAS removal technology
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(Left to right) Vincent Caillaud, Puraffinity chief executive officer, with co-founder Henrik Hagemann. This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Puraffinity. Puraffinity, a leading innovator in PFAS removal technologies, has signed its first commercial agreement to implement its flagship product, Puratech G400, in a full-scale water treatment project. This marks a significant […]
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Open-source AI models support water quality monitoring
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The models aims to support river flow predictions and pollution source tracking, among other things. Collaborative innovation project River Deep Mountain AI (RDMAI) has announced the open-source release of a suite of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models that it says are set to transform the way water quality data is collected and used. […]
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Yorkshire schools SuDS partnership boosts flood resilience
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One of the rainwater planters that has been installed in schools and an urban farm. Schools are ideal locations for sustainable drainage systems as part of flood and storm overflow reduction strategies, says Lorna Davis, director, SuDSPlanter Ltd, who details a recent community partnership with Yorkshire Water Yorkshire Water has partnered with sustainable drainage and […]
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Puraffinity and US Army Corps of Engineers partner to advance PFAS remediation technologies
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This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Puraffinity. Puraffinity, a leading innovator of advanced adsorbents for the removal of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), has announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The goal of the collaboration is to conduct […]
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Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning
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For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills. While an accounting firm’s LLM might excel at summarizing financial reports, that same model could fail unexpectedly if tasked with predicting market trends or identifying fraudulent transactions. To make LLMs more adaptable, MIT […]
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners
Congress broke for summer recess last week, but not before sending the long awaited, hotly debated One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act or the Act), or H.R. 1, to President Trump’s desk for a July 4th signing. The budget measure extends tax cuts for the wealthy, slashes Medicaid and – more to the point […]
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Exploring data and its influence on political behavior
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Data and politics are becoming increasingly intertwined. Today’s political campaigns and voter mobilization efforts are now entirely data-driven. Voters, pollsters, and elected officials are relying on data to make choices that have local, regional, and national impacts. A Department of Political Science course offers students tools to help make sense of these choices and their […]
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New postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation in health care
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The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) is launching the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to advance the work of outstanding early-career researchers in health and life sciences. Supported by a gift from the Biswas Family Foundation, the program aims to help apply cutting-edge research to improve health care and the lives of millions. […]
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Natural Gas Harms U.S. Economy And Won’t Solve Rising Electricity Demand
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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials
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Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties. A fully autonomous robotic system developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Their system utilizes a […]
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Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes
President Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement. Since winning office last November, he has issued a series of executive orders and is poised to sign his […]
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DeBriefed 4 July 2025: Trump ‘megabill’ guts clean energy; Europe’s record heat; Scientists discuss ‘most worrying’ tipping points
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Congress passes Trump’s ‘megabill’ TAX CREDITS CRUSHED: A major budget bill passed by US congress this week is “poised to remake American energy by slashing tax breaks for wind and solar power and electric cars”, reported the […]
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Report calls for ‘urgent, coordinated action’ by the Government to tackle air pollution
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Suggestions within a chapter on “Transforming Farming and Industry” include a call to carry out a review of the use of waste incinerators in the UK. The Healthy Air Coalition launched a blueprint for tackling air pollution in the UK on July, in which it provides the detail to support a call for the Government […]
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Improving predictions of flood severity, place and time with AI
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Damage to the New Jersey coast caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012: Pre-existing models have tended to downplay the intensity of outlier events. The new model combines the benefits of physics-based models and machine learning models, to improve the accuracy of extreme-event prediction, say the researchers. A novel framework is said to offer accurate […]
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Shifting UK car exhausts to the right could dramatically cut roadside air pollution
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Harmful air pollutants on UK pavements generated by diesel cars could be slashed by a third if car exhausts were positioned on the right, according to a new study. The research, led by the University of York, appears to reveal that passenger cars with exhaust pipes on the left side contribute to pollution concentrations at […]
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Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040
The European Commission has set out a proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040, with up to 3% coming via carbon credits purchased from other countries. In a proposed amendment to EU climate legislation, the commission has laid out what it calls a “new way to get to 2040”, including “flexibilities” to ease the […]
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Ships trigger high and unexpected emissions of methane
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The study seems to show that ship passages can trigger clear pulses of high methane fluxes from the water to the atmosphere (image credit: Chalmers University of Technology | Amanda Nylund). Ship traffic in shallow areas, such as ports, can trigger large methane emissions by just moving through the water. The researchers in a study, […]
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AI-enabled digital twin will support coral reef restoration in Saudi Arabia
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Some of the underwater coral nursery structures. A recent project leverages AI expertise to enhance coral monitoring and restoration strategies across a 100-hectare reefscape in the Red Sea. The groups behind the two-year programme say it will be using AI to fast-track reef restoration and conservation, at scale, for the first time. The AI solutions […]