Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels
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UK newspapers have already launched more editorials attacking Ed Miliband in the first four months of 2025 than they did during the whole of 2024, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. In the year to date, predominantly right-leaning publications have published 65 editorials – articles seen as the newspaper’s formal “voice” – criticising the UK energy secretary, […]
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AI Struggles to Emulate Historical Language
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A collaboration between researchers in the United States and Canada has found that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT struggle to reproduce historical idioms without extensive pretraining – a costly and labor-intensive process that lies beyond the means of most academic or entertainment initiatives, making projects such as completing Charles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel […]
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UK Digital Twin Centre aims to help decarbonise heavy industry
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The UK Digital Twin Centre was officially opened in Belfast on 2 May. Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by the Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the project is intended to accelerate the adoption of digital twin technology across the UK’s critical sectors, projected to reach £62million in GVA for the economy over […]
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Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer. This journalism internship will be paid the London Living Wage, with an additional travel bursary. Job description Carbon Brief’s award-winning journalism and analysis is respected by scientists, journalists, policymakers and campaigners around the […]
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FutureHouse Unveils Superintelligent AI Agents to Revolutionize Scientific Discovery
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In a world where the pace of data generation far outstrips our ability to process and understand it, scientific progress is increasingly hindered not by a lack of information, but by the challenge of navigating it. Today marks a pivotal shift in that landscape. FutureHouse, an ambitious nonprofit dedicated to building an AI Scientist, has […]
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Why Data Is the Unsung Hero of AI Strategy
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The AI Gold Rush – From Pilots and Experiments to Enterprise Scale and Strategy Moore’s Law is well and truly in play when it comes to AI. AI is heavily in demand, and every enterprise is adopting AI. Innovation is also helping fuel this demand with new AI models, AI Agents, and new technologies coming […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: Carbon Management and Negative Emissions
The second Trump Administration’s first 100 days dealing with carbon management and negative emissions can be summed up in one word – incoherence. The administration has shown some signs of support for efforts to capture carbon dioxide at power plants and other industrial facilities and remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, including in official […]
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100 Days of Trump 2.0: A Campaign Against Environmental and Climate Justice
This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0, in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first hundred days of President Trump’s second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, click here. The first hundred days of President Trump’s […]
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AI Data Centers: Addressing Growing Power Demands
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The AI revolution is in full swing, and that means a lot more data centers; industry experts predict a 33% increase in the number of data centers through the end of the decade. And with that increase will come an increase in electricity usage. Some states could see data centers account for as much as […]
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Aaron Kesler, Sr. Product Manager, AI/ML at SnapLogic – Interview Series
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Aaron Kesler, Sr. Product Manager, AI/ML at SnapLogic, is a certified product leader with over a decade of experience building scalable frameworks that blend design thinking, jobs to be done, and product discovery. He focuses on developing new AI-driven products and processes while mentoring aspiring PMs through his blog and coaching on strategy, execution, and […]
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Private AI: The Next Frontier of Enterprise Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence adoption is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. By the end of this year, the number of global AI users is expected to surge by 20%, reaching 378 million, according to research conducted by AltIndex. While this growth is exciting, it also signals a pivotal shift in how enterprises must think about AI, especially […]
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Guest post: How climate science is – and is not – shaping adaptation planning in southern Africa
Climate science is a key tool for governments tasked with preparing citizens and infrastructure for the impacts of global warming. But translating climate information into policy planning is no easy feat. In a recent study, published in Climate Policy, we explore how climate science is – and is not – being used in national-level adaptation […]
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China Briefing 1 May 2025: Xi steadfast on climate; Solar and wind surpassed thermal power; Controlling short-term GHGs
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Key developments China confirms climate commitment XI’S NOT FOR TURNING: Chinese president Xi Jinping confirmed that the country’s 2035 “nationally determined contribution” (NDC) will cover the “entire scope […]
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Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings
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The ambiguity in medical imaging can present major challenges for clinicians who are trying to identify disease. For instance, in a chest X-ray, pleural effusion, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs, can look very much like pulmonary infiltrates, which are accumulations of pus or blood. An artificial intelligence model could assist the clinician […]
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Fossil fuels are in with the BRICS? Report assesses energy preferences in emerging economic bloc
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Power plant in Indonesia: The Global Integrated Power Tracker shows 25 gigawatts (GW) of coal, oil, and gas capacity under construction in the newest BRICS countries. Founding BRICS members Brazil, India, and China continue to lead the global clean energy transition, but countries that have recently joined them in the bloc are mostly pursuing fossil […]
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Government expected to mandate rooftop solar on new build homes
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The UK government is expected to announce that all new homes will be legally required to have solar panels installed on the roof by 2027. Reported widely on 1 May, the move is being viewed as a rejection of Tony Blair’s intervention on net zero, in which he argued that “today’s policy strategies have become […]
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Mosquitoes reported from all across Scotland by citizen science project
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Efforts to find and trap mosquitoes across Scotland are being led by Dr Georgia Kirby (pictured, right) and PhD Scholar Meshach Lee (left) in the University of Glasgow’s School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine. Scientists at the University of Glasgow have received more than 700 reports of mosquitoes from across Scotland, including from […]
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Climate response still largely on paper, not in practice, portfolio and asset manager survey reveals
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A new worldwide survey conducted by global delivery consultants and construction experts, Mace, for its latest report titled State of Sustainable Assets reveals that while 97% of asset managers feel able to keep pace with environmental regulations and reporting requirements, 80% are not yet implementing strategies or thereby achieving sustainable outcomes. Conducted by Censuswide, the […]