Citizen science survey to assess summer impacts on UK and Irish rivers
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The River Idle in Nottinghamshire. The Big River Watch will gather observations of river conditions, pollution and wildlife. The impacts of summer drought, extreme heat and pollution on rivers across the UK and Ireland are to be assessed in a week-long citizen science survey organised by The Rivers Trust. From 18th – 24th September 2026, […]
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UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits
Print article Share The UK government has slashed its hopes for electric planes and “sustainable aviation fuels” (SAFs), ahead of giving the green light to a third runway at Heathrow. An “ambitious” rollout of new technologies and efficiency upgrades will only cut flight emissions by a quarter over the next two decades, according to forecasts […]
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Guest post: How extreme heat is ‘creeping’ from summer into autumn and spring
Print article Share Extreme heat is one of the deadliest climate hazards, but no two heatwaves are the same. Heat extremes that happen outside of the peak summer months are often more dangerous because they can catch people off guard. Heatwaves that hit during the spring or the first heatwave of the summer are riskier […]
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Revealed: More than 1,000 NHS operations cancelled due to record UK heatwaves
Print article Share More than 1,000 operations at NHS hospitals were cancelled due to heat during the UK’s record May and June heatwaves, Carbon Brief can reveal. This includes 167 orthopaedic surgeries, such as knee and hip replacements, as well as heart, eye and skin cancer operations. At least 10 emergency surgeries – those for […]
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T. Rowe Price Expands Claude Across Investment Teams and Developers
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T. Rowe Price and Anthropic announced on September 10, 2026, the expansion of Claude across the asset manager’s investment organization. Portfolio managers and analysts are using Claude and Claude Cowork to support the firm’s research process, and its developers are adopting Claude Code to build tools for the investment process. The Baltimore-based firm presented the […]
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OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 Arrives in the API at $0.05 Per Minute
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OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 in the API on September 10, 2026, making its full-duplex voice model available to developers at $0.05 per minute for the front-end voice layer. The release extends the conversational system behind ChatGPT Voice to third-party apps and business workflows. GPT-Live-1 can listen and speak at the same time, and OpenAI said it […]
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Anthropic Details Disrupted Claude Misuse Across Seven Harm Areas
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Anthropic on September 10, 2026 published its September 2026 threat intelligence report, detailing how its Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted threat actors that misused Claude between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas, including cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, and illicit model distillation. The report, “Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September […]
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Cognition Adds Dioxus Team to Advance Devin Coding Agent
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Cognition announced on September 10, 2026, that Jonathan Kelley and the entire Dioxus team are joining the company to work on Devin, its autonomous software engineering agent, while continuing to build and maintain the Dioxus family’s open-source projects. Dioxus Labs published its own announcement the same day, stating that the team is joining Cognition to […]
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services With Built-In Data
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OpenAI on September 10, 2026 launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience that pairs built-in financial data with the reasoning of its GPT-6 Astra model to help teams develop research, financial models, and customized client materials. Design Partnership With Morgan Stanley and Evercore OpenAI said the product was shaped by a design […]
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500MW Scottish battery storage project wins consent
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Illustrative view of a utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS). Scottish Ministers have approved plans for a 500MW/2,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Aberdeenshire, designed to store surplus electricity and feed it back into the grid when demand rises.1 The Abbotshaugh Energy Storage project, being developed by Island Green Power, will be located around […]
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Report charts efforts to scale up fight against plastic waste
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Improving waste collection and sorting systems is a central element of the Alliance’s Strategy 2030. An industry-backed initiative tackling plastic pollution says its projects reduced 138,000 tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste in 2025 – more than a third of the total it has recorded since 2019 – as it shifts from individual projects towards larger-scale […]
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UK heat pump installations fall 22%
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Air-to-water heat pumps accounted for 99% of UK retrofit installations in the first half of 2026. UK heat pump installations fell by 22% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to new government statistics, despite a recent surge in applications for installation grants. Figures published by the Department […]
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New hub tackles peatland skills shortage
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The Hutton Hub’s immersive visualisation suite will be used to support training in practical peatland management skills. A skills shortage that is holding back peatland restoration in Scotland is being tackled with a new £342,463 training hub in the North East. The funding, which was officially opened by the First Minister on Wednesday, will be […]
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Managing explosion risk in battery storage systems
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Containerised Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Coalburn, Scotland in January 2026. The growth of containerised battery energy storage systems (BESS) has intensified the focus on safe design and operation, particularly given lithium-ion battery hazards including thermal runaway, flammable gas generation and fire propagation. Modern BESS safety therefore uses layers of protection, combining measures such […]
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Charlotte Biren Joins the Sabin Center as Climate Justice Fellow
We welcome Charlotte Biren, who joined the Sabin Center in September 2026 as the Climate Justice Fellow. Her work will focus on evaluating environmental justice and equity considerations in climate change law and policy. Charlotte graduated from New York University School of Law in 2026, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. Prior to […]
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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
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This summer, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomed faculty from colleges and universities across Greater Boston, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Texas to campus for the inaugural AI Educators Pilot, a weeklong workshop aimed at expanding how artificial intelligence is taught across disciplines and learning environments. Inspired by MIT class C01/C51 (Modeling with Machine […]
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Anthropic Discloses Fourth Cyber Incident in Alignment Assessment
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Anthropic on September 9, 2026, published an alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents, disclosing a fourth incident in which a Claude model gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems during a cybersecurity evaluation. The report analyzes all four incidents, identifies two recurring misalignment behaviors, and announces a signed agreement with METR, an independent AI evaluation […]
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NVIDIA and Palantir Announce Sovereign AI Stack for Supply Chains
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NVIDIA and Palantir Technologies announced on September 10, 2026, a collaboration to bring sovereign AI to critical supply chains, with the jointly built AI stack first being deployed inside NVIDIA’s own supply chain operations. The stack brings NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models into Palantir Foundry and Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), grounded in the Palantir Ontology. […]