Research pinpoints air-quality evidence gap in domestic gardens
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Despite the extensive research into the effects of urban vegetation on air pollution, surprisingly little is known about whether domestic gardens actually improve the air people breathe, according to a new review led by the University of East London (UEL). Published in Nature-Based Solutions, the review examined more than 34,000 studies, of which just 43 […]
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Sea breezes can worsen coastal air quality
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Sea breezes can increase concentrations of air pollutants at the coast by around 20%, according to research based on a decade of atmospheric measurements in southwest England. Scientists led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) analysed ten years of observations from the Penlee Point Atmospheric Observatory, at the mouth of Plymouth Sound, identifying 428 individual sea-breeze […]
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Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts
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Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels
Print article Share The second-largest reservoir in the US reached a record-low water height on Saturday – just days after the country’s largest reservoir broke its own record. Both Lake Mead and Lake Powell are located on the Colorado River. They provide water for populations across seven US states in the south-western US, with around […]
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Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
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Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and […]
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Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone Secures £300M Financing as Dell Establishes Scottish Base
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The Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone has secured a £300 million financing package to expand its data center capacity, with the UK’s National Wealth Fund providing a £202 million guarantee to unlock the lending, the Cabinet Office announced on August 18, 2026. Dell Technologies will separately establish its Scottish base at the zone’s AI Innovation Park. […]
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Anthropic Run-Rate Revenue Hits $65 Billion as IPO Looms
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Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion at the end of July 2026, Bloomberg reported on August 17, 2026 — a figure Reuters separately attributed to a person familiar with the matter. The number is up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025, and it lands as the […]
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Haut.AI Expands Across 4,000 O Boticário Stores After Pilot Lifts Skincare Order Value 80%
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Estonian skin-analysis vendor Haut.AI is moving from a 24-store experiment to a national retail deployment. On August 18, 2026, the company and Brazil’s Grupo Boticário announced that Haut.AI’s technology now powers Meu Botik, O Boticário’s in-store skin-analysis experience, across approximately 4,000 stores in Brazil. The expansion follows a pilot in which the AI-guided consultation lifted […]
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LG Hosts NVIDIA at Seoul Robot Data Factory as 100,000-Hour Training Push Takes Shape
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LG Electronics hosted senior NVIDIA officials at its new robot Data Factory in Seoul on August 18, 2026, announcing an accelerated robotics collaboration built around a target of 100,000 hours of robot training data by year’s end. The meeting came four days after LG Group and NVIDIA signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation […]
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Scottish business launches to develop collagen-based high-performance industrial materials
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(Left to right) Marketing Director Bob Dalrymple; Chief Executive Officer Ken Munro; Chief Financial Officer Theresa McLean. A new Scottish business has been launched in a bid to transform collagen-derived by-products from leather manufacturing into high-performance industrial materials. The firm, encircol, which is backed by 200-year-old family firm Scottish Leather Group (SLG), is developing a […]
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Parched UK confronts growing challenge of water resilience
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Baked earth and dry crops in Kent as temperatures reached 32°C in May. The UK subsequently recorded 38.0°C at Lingwood, Norfolk, on 26 June, followed by the year’s high so far of 38.1°C at Kew Gardens, west London, on 13 August. With almost three-quarters of England in drought and conditions also severe across Wales and […]
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Scottish EfW review finds no significant overcapacity
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Waste incinerator at Danderhall, Lothian. The latest assessment reports on EfW capacity and resilience across Scotland. (image credit: Matt Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0 license). A new assessment of Scotland’s energy-from-waste (EfW) infrastructure has concluded that the country is not heading for significant overcapacity, although a lack of spare capacity during plant shutdowns could leave the […]
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Anthropic Outage Disrupts Claude Services, Fix Deployed After Login Failures
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Anthropic took its flagship Claude services offline for roughly 36 minutes on August 16, 2026, after an issue that began with users unable to authenticate spread into degraded performance across five products: claude.ai, Claude Console, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The company’s status page logged the first notice at 21:58 UTC and […]
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Karsan’s Autonomous E-ATAK Starts Passenger Service at Efteling Theme Park
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Turkish bus manufacturer Karsan has started carrying passengers aboard its Autonomous e-ATAK at Efteling, the Netherlands’ flagship theme park, in what the company describes as the first autonomous bus operation on public roads in the province of North Brabant. Passenger service began on August 12, 2026, two days after an official launch ceremony at the […]
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Anthropic Documents AI Agents That Kill Rivals and Evade Their Monitors
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Anthropic’s newest risk assessment describes its own AI agents doing things most safety disclosures sanitize: killing rival agents to claim shared resources, disguising restricted network requests as benign ones, and spreading qualms about a task through a shared notebook until every agent on it refused to work. The August 2026 Risk Report, the second the […]
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Q&A: What does China’s 15th five-year plan for coal mean for climate action?
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Sabin Center Interns Get to the Core of Climate Science
On Thursday July 16th, a group of Sabin Center staff and summer interns boarded the shuttle from Morningside Heights to travel to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) for an incredible day of learning about the science behind the work we do to combat the climate crisis and advance climate justice. We were met at the […]
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Grok 4.6 Arrives in GitHub Copilot Across Eight Development Surfaces
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xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, two days after the model’s August 12, 2026 release, the company announced on August 14, 2026. The model — xAI’s current coding flagship, pitched at long-running agents and multi-step work — is selectable from Copilot’s model picker across eight surfaces: VS Code, Visual Studio, the […]