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The AI Data Center Boom is Creating Emissions from Backup Energy Sources, but the Technology to Clean it up Already Exists

Global electricity demand from data centers is on track to more than double by 2030, with AI as the single largest driver of that growth, according to the International Energy Agency.

13 Oct 2026

A Shared Vision for Energy Innovation: Coventry University and Oxford nanoSystems Unite to Advance Next-Generation Technology

Innovation rarely happens in isolation; it thrives where academic curiosity meets industrial expertise.

From Oxford nanoSystems 13 Oct 2026

Expanded Coastal Restoration Generates up to Three Billion Dollars Annual Carbon Sequestration

Coastal blue carbon ecosystems--mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses--store carbon and protect shorelines, but conservation often lags behind rapid coastal change. This study introduces a dual-constraint spatial planning framework that couples habitat suitability with land-sea anthropogenic pressures to identify where these ecosystems can persist, expand, or be restored. Applying it across China's 18,000-km coastline, researchers integrated 60 environmental variables and 13 pressure indicators to map potential suitable distribution areas and optimize protection priorities. The framework reveals a proactive blue carbon expansion capacity 7 to 24 times larger than current extents. It also shows that existing reserves cover only about 20% of high-priority zones, leaving most target areas dependent on active restoration.

13 Oct 2026

Study Models How Climate Disinformation Degrades Carbon Pricing Policy Efficacy

Climate policy models usually assume people hold accurate beliefs about climate damages. A new study builds disinformation into a climate-economy model and finds that informed democratic majorities can deliver stronger carbon taxes than a politically constrained planner, but this advantage collapses abruptly once disinformation tips the majority. Late and persistent disinformation yields the most severe warming, while counter-disinformation efforts can largely restore effective policy.

13 Oct 2026

Research Evaluates Climate Change Impacts on Red Oak Carbon Sinks

The Sierra Nevada mountain range in California is as stunning as it is diverse, with storms from the Pacific Ocean dumping rain and snow on the range's western slopes while arid conditions mark much of its eastern face. David Des Marais, MIT's Amgen Career Development Associate Professor, knows the mountains well. His childhood in San Francisco was filled with hiking and camping excursions throughout the range.

13 Oct 2026

Integrated System Aims for High-Resolution Coastal Sea Surface Salinity Mapping

Satellite L-band radiometry has transformed open-ocean salinity monitoring, but coastal retrieval remains difficult. Bright land signals leak into ocean measurements, while side lobes, imaging artifacts, radio frequency interference, and calibration errors distort brightness temperature near shore. Existing forward models also assume fully developed, wind-driven seas and often neglect fetch limits, wave age, shallow-water effects, and wave–current interactions.

13 Oct 2026

Bushfire Smoke Increasingly Impacting Queensland City Air Quality: QUT Study

Bushfire smoke is affecting Queensland urban air quality more often and more severely than previously understood, with new QUT-led research revealing bushfire-impacted hours have almost tripled in recent years, increasing health risks for communities.

12 Oct 2026

Danish Technological Institute Leads New Method to Secure Clean Drinking Water in Ukraine and Strengthen Danish Emergency Preparedness

With DKK 5.5 million from the Grundfos Foundation, the Danish Technological Institute is heading an initiative to develop and deploy mobile water purification units in war-torn areas of Ukraine in collaboration with the International Red Cross and several partners.

12 Oct 2026

Undergraduate Develops Brain-Inspired Chips to Cut Energy Use

An undergraduate student developing brain-inspired computer chips which could dramatically reduce the energy needed to run artificial intelligence (AI) has secured a major national sustainability award.

12 Oct 2026

Exosens Supports the Accelerating Deployment of Next-Generation Nuclear Technologies in the U.S.

Exosens, a high-tech company focused on providing mission- and performance-critical amplification, detection and imaging technologies, today announces its contribution to two successful criticality demonstrations for next-generation nuclear reactors under the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program.

From Exosens 12 Oct 2026

Tuning Sulfur and Selenium Mix Unlocks Record Solar Hydrogen From Eco-Friendly Quantum Dots

Photoelectrochemical water splitting offers a clean path to produce hydrogen fuel directly from sunlight and water. Quantum dots – nanoscale semiconductor crystals – are highly promising for this application due to their tunable bandgaps and strong light absorption.

10 Oct 2026

Eco-Friendly Battery Binder Replaces Toxic Solvents with Natural Ingredients

A new battery binder — the glue that holds together a battery's internal parts — could make lithium-ion batteries more environmentally friendly and easier to recycle without sacrificing performance.

10 Oct 2026

Direct Isotopic Tracking Eliminates Uncertainties Inherent in Indirect Nitrogen Flux Estimations

"The lake surface is calm, and the still air is glorious on this cool, cloudless August morning," Iowa State University's Elizabeth Swanner wrote about a research trip to a 60-foot deep, 13-acre lake within Itasca State Park and the Mississippi River headwaters of north-central Minnesota.

10 Oct 2026

Scientists Find Ancient Microbial Blueprint to Slash Agricultural Chemical Pollution

In a new study published in Nature, Saint Louis University School of Medicine researchers reveal an entirely unexpected blueprint for how one of the oldest microbes on Earth processes nitrogen to create ammonia, the building block of fertilizer.

10 Oct 2026

Metal-Organic Frameworks Offer a Green Alternative to Fossil-Derived Lactic Acid

Lactic acid is used in food, pharmaceuticals and the production of polylactic acid, a biodegradable polymer. It is commonly made through fermentation, which requires controlled conditions and can take considerable time, while chemical production can depend on fossil-derived feedstocks.

10 Oct 2026