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...
Figen Sekin
I specialize in sustainability education, curriculum co-creation, and early-stage project strategy. At WINSS, I craft articles on sustainability, transformative AI, and related topics. When I'm not writing, you'll find me chasing the perfect sushi roll, exploring cities around the globe, or unwinding with my dog Puffy — the world’s most loyal sidekick.
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...
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...
These Are the 48 Jobs AI Will Replace or Impact Across Industries Between 2026 and 2030
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a rapid pace, leading to a transformation of the workforce. From bank vaults to...
California launches AI-Ready California, a first-in-nation AI literacy micro-credential pilot
The California Labor & Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) announced the launch of AI-Ready California on July 14, 2026, a statewide...
India flags off “NaMo Green Rail,” its first hydrogen-powered passenger train
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off India's first domestically built hydrogen-powered passenger train at Jind railway station in Haryana on...
Transgrid opens a 900 MW pathway for grid-forming battery storage in New South Wales
Transgrid, the transmission network operator for New South Wales (NSW), revised its plan for stabilizing the state's electricity grid on...
Enhanced rock weathering lifted carbon storage 27% in Welsh reforestation trial, Imperial College London study finds
Applying crushed silicate rock to soil before planting raised aboveground carbon storage by 27 percent in broadleaf woodland after four...
Realbotix humanoid robot and Optio AI teaching assistant begin pilot at Salamanca City Central School District
Salamanca City Central School District, in Cattaraugus County, New York, is piloting a Realbotix humanoid robot alongside an AI teaching...
General Fusion becomes first publicly traded fusion energy company, begins trading on Nasdaq
General Fusion Group Ltd., a Vancouver-based fusion energy developer, began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker "GFUZ" on July...
AI chatbots linked to less study time and lower math scores in analysis of 3.2 million ALEKS interactions
A working paper analyzing 3.2 million student interactions with the ALEKS math platform found that after ChatGPT's late-2022 release, students...
FAO report: trade policy choices shape how fast food markets recover from shocks
Trade policy choices, not market forces alone, determine food market resilience when shocks hit, according to the Food and Agriculture...
Electric field raises heat conduction in a ceramic by nearly 300%, ORNL study finds
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have shown a way of controlling heat with...
Illinois issues 400-page AI guidance for schools, drafted partly with AI chatbots
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) issued a 400-page AI guidance for schools on July 9, 2026, giving teachers...
Brown University publishes its first generative AI in teaching report amid an economics exam-integrity case
Brown University's Generative AI in Teaching and Learning committee published its first report on July 7, 2026, setting out how...
Google, McKinsey and Tencent sign 635,000-tonne nature-based carbon removal deals with Thryve.Earth
Singapore-based project developer Thryve.Earth has signed long-term nature-based carbon removal deals with Google, McKinsey and Tencent to remove more than...
Quaise Energy raises $134 million for the first commercial superhot geothermal energy plant
Quaise Energy has raised $134 million at the first close of a Series B round to fund the first commercial...
Climentum Capital raises €60 million first close for climate tech Fund II
The Climentum climate tech fund reached a first close of €60 million (about US$68 million) on July 6, 2026, the...
Satellites advance biodiversity monitoring but key gaps remain, Oxford-led review finds
Satellite biodiversity monitoring can now track how forests are built and how they function, but it still cannot see many...
Vena Energy secures A$1.4 billion green financing for Australian solar and battery storage
Vena Energy secured about A$1.4 billion (roughly US$970 million) in green financing facilities for solar and battery storage projects in...
AI use in US higher education reaches a tipping point, Time for Class 2026 finds
AI in higher education has reached a tipping point, according to "Time for Class 2026: The AI Tipping Point", a...
RMIT dual-bubble method removes over 90% of microplastics from wastewater
RMIT University reported on July 5, 2026 that a dual-bubble treatment method achieved microplastic removal of more than 90% from...
UNESCO publishes a practical guide for AI in TVET institutions
UNESCO-UNEVOC published "Integrating AI in TVET: A practical guide for institutions" on July 3, 2026, setting out how technical and...
Vehicle-to-grid electric school buses shore up the US grid in a heat wave
Vehicle-to-grid school buses returned stored power to strained US electricity grids during last week's heat, according to a July 5,...
ISTE launches StretchAI, a vetted chatbot for K-12 teachers
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) unveiled the wider release of ISTE StretchAI, an AI chatbot for K-12...
Moment Energy opens second-life EV battery megafactory in Vancouver
Moment Energy opened Megafactory 1 in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 23, 2026, a plant that repurposes retired electric-vehicle batteries...
