Technological R&D – the most important driver for climate protection
Survey of experts from the IPCC and the UN climate change conferences indicates the priorities. Climate [...]
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EffiLayers gets organic photovoltaics rolling
Sunny prospects: Under the direction of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, five [...]
Interactions in the Earth system amplify human impacts
What we do to one part of our Earth system does not just add to what [...]
The “air” in the ocean becomes thinner
In addition to warming and acidification of seawater, the loss of oxygen in the ocean increasingly [...]
Global food production at risk of simultaneous heat waves across breadbasket regions
Certain patterns in the jet stream encircling the Earth can bring simultaneous heatwaves to breadbasket regions [...]
Study shows lake methane emissions should prompt rethink on climate change
A new study from Swansea University has given new insights into how the greenhouse gas methane [...]
Drone images show Greenland Ice Sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures
The world’s second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea level rise, is [...]
Can Arctic ‘ice management’ combat climate change?
A new AWI study shows that a radical geo-engineering concept could potentially slow sea-ice retreat, but [...]
Outlook for the polar regions in a 2 degrees warmer world
With 2019 on pace as one of the warmest years on record, a new international study [...]
2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat and high-impact weather
The year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat, retreating ice and record sea levels [...]
Better policy monitoring required to underpin decarbonisation
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) will start in Madrid on Monday, 2 December [...]
Small, fast, and highly energy-efficient memory device inspired by lithium-ion batteries
Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) developed [...]
Decarbonizing the power sector: renewable energy offers most benefits for health and environment
Electricity supply is one of the biggest CO2 emitters globally. To keep global warming well below [...]
Breaking CO2 faster, cheaper, and more efficiently
A new catalyst breaks carbon dioxide into useful chemicals faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than the [...]
Last Arctic ice refuge is disappearing
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the [...]
NASA to Send Prototype Solar Power Generator Developed at BGU to the International Space Station
BGU Prof. (Emer.) Jeffrey Gordon und seine US-amerikanischen Kollegen haben einen miniaturisierten Prototypen für Solarenergie entworfen, der einen [...]