US renewables supplied 30.3% of electricity in early 2026, EIA data shows
Renewables supplied 30.3% of total US electricity generation during the first five months of 2026, up from 28.2% in the...
Month: July 2026
Instructure survey finds 90% of higher-ed students now use AI
Ed-tech company Instructure published a survey on July 21, 2026, unveiled at InstructureCon 2026 in Louisville, finding that 90% of...
India’s solar capacity reaches 162.15 GW, a 57-fold rise since 2014
India's Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, told the Lok Sabha in a written reply on July...
EU Digital Product Passport registry becomes operational
The European Commission's Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry became operational on July 20, 2026, according to the Commission's own indicative...
Egypt launches national AI competency framework for teachers with UNESCO
UNESCO reported on July 21, 2026, that Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education, working with UNESCO, has officially launched...
How Greener Transportation Choices Could Shape the Future of Vehicle Logistics
Photo by Artem Zhukov on Unsplash The transportation industry is under growing pressure to become more sustainable, and vehicle logistics...
USDA calls for AI tools in agriculture to speed up crop innovation
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on July 22, 2026, that it is calling on universities and other partners...
India awards 1,344MW of pumped hydro storage and its first utility-scale vanadium flow battery
India's Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) awarded 1,344 megawatts of pumped hydro storage contracts to three developers on July...
Charleston County School District trains teachers under its AI policy ahead of 2026-27
Charleston County School District (CCSD) in South Carolina held teacher training sessions this summer to prepare educators to implement the...
Michigan State backs three AI-Ready Spartans education grants
Michigan State University's College of Education announced on July 15, 2026, that three of its projects were selected in the...
Climate tech venture capital funding rose 55% to $26.1 billion in H1 2026
Venture capital investment in climate technology reached $26.1 billion in the first half of 2026, up 55% from the same...
OpenAI moves ChatGPT Study Mode into parental controls for teen accounts
OpenAI has added ChatGPT Study Mode to its parental controls, letting a parent with a linked teen account switch the...
Australia connected a record 9.1 GW of renewables and storage in FY26, AEMO reports
Australia connected a record 9.1 GW of new generation and storage capacity in the 2025/26 financial year, more than double...
Aukera secures EUR 48.5m from IFC for phase two of Romania’s largest battery storage project
Aukera has reached financial close on a EUR 48.5 million (USD 55.3 million) financing package from the International Finance Corporation...
AI job risk checker: what 177 assessments reveal, and a new version launches today
The WINSS AI job risk checker collected 177 completed responses between March 24, 2025 and May 15, 2026, and the...
South Korea launches final 1 GW solar tender before scrapping its renewable quota system
South Korea's Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE) has opened a tender for around 1 GW of new solar...
WGU partners with Anthropic on an AI-native model for learning and credentialing
Western Governors University (WGU), the largest nonprofit online university in the United States, is partnering with AI company Anthropic to...
Future Fund Oman backs 6 GW solar cell and module factory, billed as the first integrated plant in the Middle East
Future Fund Oman (FFO), the sovereign wealth vehicle managed by the Oman Investment Authority (OIA), announced on July 16, 2026...
European Commission pairs the EU Electrification Action Plan with an ETS overhaul to reach 46% by 2040
The European Commission released the EU Electrification Action Plan in Brussels on July 17, 2026, together with a revision of...
Solar power and battery storage break records across the US and EU in the first half of 2026
Solar and storage records fell across four grids in the first half of 2026. California's grid operator recorded its highest-ever...
Maryland school districts face a fall 2026 deadline to adopt AI policies under new law
Maryland school districts have a fall 2026 deadline to adopt their own artificial intelligence policies under the Artificial Intelligence Ready...
Ellen MacArthur Foundation finds circular economy policies largely overlook bio-based materials
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation published "Circular by Nature: A Policy Agenda for Bio-Based Materials in a Circular Economy" on June...
Google and Cypress Creek break ground on Steel River Energy Center, a 2.5 GW Arkansas solar and storage project
Google and renewables developer Cypress Creek Energy broke ground on July 14, 2026 on Steel River Energy Center, a solar...
Digital Education Council survey finds 88% of students and 77% of faculty now use AI, with US and Canada faculty pulling back
A survey of 45,398 students and faculty across 35 countries, published by the Digital Education Council (DEC) in early July...
Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers, giving free access to US K-12 educators
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, 2026, giving verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium...
Illinois and Toyota engineers build a battery-like direct air capture device that pulls CO2 from the air
Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with the Toyota Research Institute of North America, have built a battery-like...
UNESCO and LG AI Research launch a global MOOC on the ethics of AI
UNESCO and LG AI Research launched "Empowering Minds: Transforming Lives", a free global AI ethics course, on July 20, 2026...
Flowing zinc slurry battery points to low-cost long-duration energy storage
Researchers at Fudan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated a flowing zinc slurry battery that ran reversibly...
Why Eco-Friendly Bags in the UK Are the Promotional Gift Customers Never Throw Away
Most promotional gifts end up in a drawer or the bin within weeks. Eco-friendly bags in the UK are different....
AI-Proof Jobs in 2026: 79 Careers Safe From AI, For Now
AI-proof jobs are roles that automation is least likely to take over: work built on human empathy, physical dexterity in...
