sustainability

The AI buildout and the green transition each present significant and similar opportunities and challenges.

UK hosts nearly a quarter of Europe’s data centres, despite growing concerns around environmental impact and water consumption

Industrial facilities face increasing scrutiny over environmental protection and financial risk management. A single oil spill can cost millions in cleanup expenses, trigger severe regulatory penalties and create long-term environmental liability. An effective oil containment system is a strategic investment in both ecological stewardship and the financial stability of facility operations. The Hi…

A new tool from Seattle-based startup Neuralwatt calculates the exact AI carbon footprint tracker metrics for individual prompts in real time to curb data center emissions. Read More

As corporate sustainability matures, so do the data requirements. Historically, high-level goals and annual averages have been the standard for reporting. Because companies lacked primary data, professionals could use broad annual matching for their renewable energy needs in Scope 2 or use industry benchmarks to fill in the gaps for Scope 3. However, the landscape...

Rep. Sam Liccardo wants to rebuild the Pacifica pier with help from the federal government. But does investing in this kind of infrastructure make sense?

Nature, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01914-w The Haber–Bosch fertilizer production process should be taught through a social-ecological lens

n the face of growing environmental concerns, rapid urbanization, and mounting consumerism,waste management has emerged as a critical global challenge.

Six students in USC Marshall’s Hayes Barnard Fellowship and the program’s founding director installed solar panels to electrify a school. The post Trojans build sustainable infrastructure for Kenya village appeared first on USC .

Thinktank says decoupling electricity from gas prices has also helped shield Spain from hikes caused by Iran war Spanish households save €10 a month on electricity bills because of wind turbines and solar panels installed in the last five years, a report has found. Typical energy bills would be 19% more expensive if electricity costs were still as tightly coupled to gas prices as in 2021, accordi…

New-type urbanization reflects a development orientation toward low-carbon, green, and environmentally friendly growth; however, its relationship with the ecological environment remains insufficiently understood, particularly in ecologically fragile and underdeveloped regions. Taking the Southwest China’s ethnic minorities areas as the study area, this paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA…

Safe water is often secured by infrastructure, but this can fail in remote, rural, or disaster-affected settings. Our self-powered floating capsule uses everyday motion to assess water quality, transmit TDS data, and support microbial disinfection without batteries or chemical additives.

A German longitudinal study found no robust evidence that nearby construction of wind turbines broadly reduced physical or mental health-related quality of life among residentially stable adults. However, living within 3 km of a higher turbine density was associated with lower mental HRQoL, suggesting cumulative exposure may matter more than distance alone.

Nature Communications, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74453-7 Polyvinyl chloride microplastics have been detected within clinical settings and may influence bacterial infections. Here, the authors demonstrate that these microplastics facilitate acute infection by uropathogenic E. coli, helping the bacteria evade immune cells and increase shedding.

University of Washington researchers developed an artificial intelligence system that automatically estimates the environmental impacts of making different electronic devices. The system takes only a minute to run and achieves estimates with accuracy similar to human experts'.

China is building a dam system that will generate more hydroelectric power than the U.S. generates yearly. But the project comes with huge risks for people downstream.

Residents of West Oakland, which suffers from toxic waste and high pollution rates, rally against a coal export facility West Oakland, a California neighborhood known for its rich history of Black activism from the Pullman Porters’ union to the Black Panthers, might not seem like the site of the country’s next great coal project. But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is pushing for – w…

Located in the Douro Superior, within one of the largest areas of organically certified vineyards in northern Portugal, the Quinta do Ataíde Winery is conceived as a contemporary architectural response to a highly sensitive cultural landscape, where sustainability is a central design driver rather than a technical afterthought. Developed for Symington Family Estates, the project reflects a long-t…

TUNACONS is changing how tuna is caught to better protect the fishing industry and marine environment. The post A New Wave of Sustainable Tuna Fishing in Ecuador appeared first on Food Tank .

In the towns of Acton and Boxborough, electric schoolbusses are going to make history this summer The post MA school buses will begin adding clean power to the grid this June appeared first on Environment America Research & Policy Center .