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  • This latest MZT deployment at the Deep Sky installation is the first to operate in sub-zero temperatures. The startup behind the UK’s first commercial direct air capture (DAC) plant has begun delivery of its first international project, at an installation in Alberta, Canada. Mission Zero Technologies (or ‘MZT’) announced the delivery and installation of their […]

  • My general mood these days swings from anger to deep grief, no matter how many times I stop to notice the blue jay in the front yard white pine, or the changing fall foliage along mama Mississippi, or the laughter of my neighbor’s toddler.   It seems that we as a people no longer hold life […]

  • Carbfix CCS project under construction in Iceland. Global CO2 capture capacity is on track to double to over 100 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) of CO2, once facilities currently under construction commence operation, according to the “Global Status of CCS 2024” report, produced by not-for-profit think tank group the Global CCS Institute, which has a […]

  • The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches today (15 October) with a warning that households are wasting over one billion items every year that could be recycled. New statistics reveal millions of recyclable bottles, sprays and toilet roll tubes are facing incineration, or landfill (words: WRAP). Britain’s most binned items include: 845 million cleaning product bottles […]

  • More than 85% of countries are set to miss the UN’s deadline to submit new nature pledges ahead of the COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia, according to a joint investigation by Carbon Brief and the Guardian. Three of the G7 nations are among those not to publish new national pledges, known as national biodiversity strategies […]

  • Hello! My Name is Athena Geer, and I am the Youth Climate Justice Coordinator here at Climate Generation. When I started this job in July 2023, I was overwhelmed with the much-anticipated joy of being a Youth Coordinator and also a coordinator of a program I used to be a part of as a young […]

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we create visuals. Text-to-image models make it incredibly easy to generate high-quality images from simple text descriptions. Industries like advertising, entertainment, art, and design already employ these models to explore new creative possibilities. As technology continues to evolve, the opportunities for content creation become even more vast, making […]

  • We live in a world where personalized consumer experiences are increasingly the norm. To think, a couple of decades ago, the only options at the coffee shop were cream and sugar or black. Nowadays, you assume you’ll be able to order your half-caff, no-foam, almond milk cappuccino with two pumps of sugar-free vanilla—anything less would […]

  • Skip Levens is a product leader and AI strategist at Quantum, a leader in data management solutions for AI and unstructured data. He is currently responsible for driving engagement, awareness, and growth for Quantum’s end-to-end solutions. Throughout his career – which has included stops at organizations like Apple, Backblaze, Symply, and Active Storage – he has successfully led marketing and business development, evangelism, launched […]

  • OPINION Nobody in the fictional Star Wars universe takes AI seriously. In the historic human timeline of George Lucas’s 47 year-old science-fantasy franchise, threats from singularities and machine learning consciousness are absent, and AI is confined to autonomous mobile robots (‘droids’) – which are habitually dismissed by protagonists as mere ‘machines’. Yet most of the […]

  • The Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre (REACT) was announced on 7 October, one of five new centres to share in £25m from a new UKRI programme intended to support the innovation necessary for net zero. Described as the UK’s first sustainable electronics centre, REACT aims to address both the environmental and economic challenges of […]

  • The common wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) migrates westwards at a speed of around 5 kilometres per year and northwards at around 0.1 kilometres per year, says the research (image credit: Petr Harant). Surprising westward shifts in the distribution of plants are explainable, according to new research, by nitrogen pollution, and to a lesser extent climate […]

  • An Airly Orbital on a car roof. AI and air quality expert Airly launched ‘Airly Orbital’ on 9 October – a compact, low-power device with built-in GPS and cellular communications to allow mobile air quality monitoring. “Traditional air quality monitors are fixed in one location,” explains Airly CEO Wiktor Warchalowski. “But air quality does not […]

  • Demed L’Her serves as the CTO at DigitalRoute and is a software executive with a proven track record in enterprise software strategy. He combines a strong academic background with a pragmatic approach to leadership and technology. DigitalRoute offers a portfolio designed specifically to convert raw usage data into billable items. The DigitalRoute Usage Engine™ enables […]

  • While large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and Llama are impressive in their capabilities, they often need more information and more access to domain-specific data. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solves these challenges by combining LLMs with information retrieval. This integration allows for smooth interactions with real-time data using natural language, leading to its growing popularity in […]

  • Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Intensifying hurricanes STILL POWERFUL: Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida on Wednesday “weakening but still tremendously powerful”, the Guardian reported, bringing “catastrophic winds likely to cause significant property damage” and leaving “nearly 3m homes and businesses…without power”. […]

  • More and more of our residual waste is incinerated, as much as 65 per cent of it goes up in smoke. PhD candidate Kim Rainer Mattson believes much of this can be recovered and recycled (image credit: Photo: Sølvi W. Normannsen). In the sea of environmental problems over which we have little control, recycling has […]

  • A new research collaboration between Singapore and China has proposed a method for attacking the popular synthesis method 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). The new attack method uses crafted source data  to overload the available GPU memory of the target system, and to make training so lengthy as to potentially incapacitate the target server, equivalent to […]