MPs warn of dangerous delays and soaring costs at Sellafield
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Image credit: Dom Crayford, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license Efforts to retrieve radioactive waste from ageing facilities at Sellafield — the UK’s most hazardous nuclear site — are not proceeding fast enough, with MPs warning that further delays could push the cost of decommissioning beyond the existing £136 billion estimated bill. A 4 June report by […]
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People should ask questions about forever chemicals in their workwear
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Rob Piazza of workwear firm phs Besafe. As the textile and laundry industries come under increased scrutiny to better manage PFAS contamination, specialist PPE workwear and laundry firm phs Besafe is calling for more commercial laundries to ban retreating garments with PFAS. PFAS (Poly and perfluoroalkyl substances), popularly known as ‘forever chemicals’, are a group […]
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Fluid strategies for waste and cost reduction
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This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with A&S International and Fluitec A couple of forthcoming events will equip participants with expertise in extending the life and performance of industrial lubricants and machinery using Fluitec’s Fluid Life Extension technologies. Fluitec Lubrication Academies are taking place in Aberdeen and Birmingham on 17 and 19 […]
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10 Python One-Liners That Will Simplify Feature Engineering
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Feature engineering is a key process in most data analysis workflows, especially when constructing machine learning models.
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Reflections as a Youth Worker
In this blog, Ramiro does something different. Marc Woods, a youth organizer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Ramiro Vazquez, Jr., our Youth Programs Manager, sit down to chat and reflect on the topic of Youth Development in a conversational storytelling audio format. Marc has amassed over 15 years of experience organizing in Minneapolis, from community outreach […]
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How to Address the Network Security Challenges Related to Agentic AI
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Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next frontier of AI, promising to go beyond even the capabilities of generative AI (GenAI). Unlike most GenAI systems, which rely on human prompts or oversight, agentic AI is proactive because it doesn’t require user input to solve complex, multi-step problems. By leveraging a digital ecosystem of large language […]
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Yomi Tejumola, Founder and CEO of Algomarketing – Interview Series
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Yomi Tejumola is the Founder and CEO of Algomarketing, a company focused on helping enterprise teams integrate AI-proficient talent to drive transformation and unlock growth. With a background as a data scientist and marketing technologist, Tejumola spent over a decade working with leading global enterprises to optimize operations, automate workflows, and generate data-driven insights. Over […]
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Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record
The UK’s solar farms and rooftops generated more electricity than ever before in the first five months of 2025, as the country enjoyed its sunniest spring on record. The figures, revealed in new Carbon Brief analysis, show that the nation’s solar sites have generated a record 7.6 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity during January to […]
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Cropped 4 June 2025: ‘Tricks’ and ‘cover-ups’; Wild weather; Former UN nature negotiator interviewed
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 ‘Tricks’ and ‘cover-ups’ LIVESTOCK EMISSIONS: Climate scientists speaking to the Financial Times accused the governments of New […]
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AI Acts Differently When It Knows It’s Being Tested, Research Finds
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Echoing the 2015 ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, new research suggests that AI language models such as GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini may change their behavior during tests, sometimes acting ‘safer’ for the test than they would in real-world use. If LLMs habitually adjust their behavior under scrutiny, safety audits could end up certifying systems that behave very differently […]
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World might have set itself an unachievable nature target, says former UK negotiator
A landmark global goal to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is close to slipping beyond reach – and may have not been achievable when it was set in 2022, according to a former UK lead negotiator. Will Lockhart OBE represented the UK in UN nature negotiations from 2021 until the end of COP16 […]
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DeepSeek-V3 Unveiled: How Hardware-Aware AI Design Slashes Costs and Boosts Performance
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DeepSeek-V3 represents a breakthrough in cost-effective AI development. It demonstrates how smart hardware-software co-design can deliver state-of-the-art performance without excessive costs. By training on just 2,048 NVIDIA H800 GPUs, this model achieves remarkable results through innovative approaches like Multi-head Latent Attention for memory efficiency, Mixture of Experts architecture for optimized computation, and FP8 mixed-precision training […]
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Circular copper recovery could bridge 3.6 MT supply gap, says McKinsey
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Old copper cables: 40% of copper postconsumer scrap remains uncollected or informally processed. Demand for copper is expected to spike with advances in the global energy transition, but the industry could face a 3.6 million metric tons (Mt) shortfall in refined copper by 2035, according to a new report from consultancy firm McKinsey. Increasing circularity […]
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York is meeting national air pollution targets for the first time
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York Minster Cathedral and surrounding buildings (image credit: Stockinasia / Shutterstock.com) Many UK cities continue to struggle to meet the legally-defined limits for NO2, ahead of the forthcoming Clean Air Day, so City of York Council’s 2 June announcement that is is now meeting national air pollution targets for the first time seems significant. The […]
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Detecting algal blooms in real time: Group presents inexpensive method
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The sensor system (image credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology) A real-time, low-cost algal bloom monitoring system has been developed by Korean researchers, employing inexpensive optical sensors and a novel labeling logic. The system achieves higher accuracy than state-of-the-art AI models such as Gradient Boosting and Random Forest, according to the group […]
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SEPA announces changes to regulation of waste-to-land activities in Scotland
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On 2 June, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) said it was informing businesses in Scotland of important changes to the regulation of the use of waste on land for soil improvement. This includes changes to how to apply for an authorisation. The move will create a single regulatory framework for the application of waste […]
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Project turns NHS uniforms into upcycled bags
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Created from retired hospital uniforms, all profit made from the sale of the limited-edition bags will be donated to support NHS staff and patients in Brighton. Hand-stitched, upcycled bags will give a second life to NHS uniforms that would otherwise be incinerated or sent to landfill, in a new project by two recent graduates from […]
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TurboLearn AI Review: The Ultimate Study Hack for Students
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What if you could turn a 60-minute lecture into a study guide, flashcards, a quiz, and even a podcast in minutes? You’re in luck, because that’s exactly what TurboLearn AI does. Built by two college students who were tired of spending more time organizing their study materials than learning, TurboLearn AI is a study tool […]