Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?
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Last week, hundreds of scientists, policymakers and journalists flocked to the University of Exeter to attend an international conference on “tipping points”. The conference saw experts discussing the dangers of a range of Earth system tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the shutdown of the […]
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A Blueprint for Rights-Based Climate Action: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency
A Historic Advisory Opinion On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued Advisory Opinion No. 32—the most important and progressive document yet released by an international court on the climate crisis. In this landmark ruling (still only available in Spanish, with official English and Portuguese translations expected on Friday, July 11), […]
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Nature-positive AI projects hailed successes following £2 million investment
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The River Idle in Nottinghamshire was the focal point of work by one of the funding recipients Zulu Ecosystems & Severn Trent, in a project that has developed models to show how nature-based solutions can impact things like flood management (image credit: Darkhorse Winterwolf, CC BY-NC 2.0 license). Six data and AI projects have successfully […]
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World first claimed for hybrid solar-powered inland shipping vessel
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In the Blue Marlin, solar panels contribute power directly to the ship’s high voltage electric propulsion. Dutch maritime solar innovator Wattlab has delivered a solar energy system for HGK Shipping’s inland shipping cargo vessel Blue Marlin. In what’s presented as a significant technical milestone for sustainable inland shipping, the vessel’s 192 solar panels will provide […]
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Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’
In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently played host to the second international conference on “tipping points”. The event was billed as a “call to action” to the “research community, policymakers and business to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of tipping points and to accelerate […]
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OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly
Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of unmitigated climate change far more severe. These are two key conclusions from the latest report on risks to the government finances from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which includes a chapter on climate change. The new […]
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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 […]