Day: 16 September 2026

New global platform maps next-generation geothermal research capacity to drive collaboration and speed up development

Stuart Mitchell

Clean Air Task Force (CATF) today launched the Geothermal Frontier Knowledge Sharing Platform, a free tool that maps institutional research capacity and country-level geothermal profiles in one place. “Unlocking next-generation geothermal, especially higher-enthalpy resources like superhot rock geothermal, requires connecting research, funding, and industry that are currently fragmented,” said Angela Seligman, senior geoscientist at CATF. “The Geothermal Frontier knowledge sharing platform is built to help researchers find partners, help industry find testing infrastructure, and help policymakers target funding to close research gaps, all with the goal of accelerating the pace…

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PRSA Launches ICON 2026 Creator Collective to Bring New Voices to Conference Storytelling

Stuart Mitchell

PRSA has announced the selection of six communications professionals and content creators for the PRSA ICON 2026 Creator Collective, a pilot initiative created to bring fresh voices and perspectives to the industry’s premier annual conference and largest gathering of communications professionals. Following a competitive application process that drew interest from a diverse group of communications professionals, six applicants were selected to participate in the pilot. The Creator Collective introduces a different approach to ICON storytelling, giving communications professionals an opportunity to share the conference through their own voices, platforms and…

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Super El Niño to hit major cities across Asia and Africa, disrupting livelihoods, economies and global supply chains, new WaterAid research warns

Stuart Mitchell

New research from international charity WaterAid reveals the double threat of the climate crisis and this year’s Super El Niño, expected to make it even harder for communities, economies and businesses to prepare for, recover from and adapt to an unprecedented year of extreme weather events. Current forecasts indicate that a Super El Niño is expected to develop, with much greater-than-average warming of the Pacific Ocean expected to peak between September and November 2026. WaterAid, with academics from the University of Bristol and Cardiff University, has analysed how previous El…

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Project explores disintermediation – and reintermediation – of charities in new depth

Stuart Mitchell

With other actors increasingly displacing charities in giving to good causes, asking for support, and providing help for people in needed, a four-phase project has launched to help charities ‘reintermediate’ into the relationships and processes from which they are being displaced. Phase one of the project from fundraising think tank Rogare and Kingston University Business School has just been completed with the launch of a white paper, Death by a thousand cuts: How other actors are displacing charities from giving, asking for support, and providing help. The paper, out now,…

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M&S becomes the first major grocer to back the Retail Trust’s ‘Let’s Respect Retail’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer today announced its support for the Retail Trust’s ‘Let’s Respect Retail’ campaign, becoming the first major UK grocer to publicly back the initiative and reinforce the message that everyone working in retail deserves to feel safe, respected and valued at work. Let’s Respect Retail is run by the Retail Trust, the charity for retail workers, to tackle abuse against shopworkers and encourage shoppers to show simple acts of courtesy, kindness and respect towards the people who serve customers and communities every day. Hundreds of retailers have backed…

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