IRENA Coalition for Action releases new report onstimulating community energy investment
Citizen-led renewable energy projects – commonly known as “community energy” – can play an important role [...]
Year: 2020
New transmission system makes electric cars more powerful, more efficient and potentially cheaper
TU/e PhD candidate Caiyang Wei has developed a highly efficient automatic transmission system for electric vehicles. [...]
New fabrication method for perovskite solar cells promises to break the efficiency limit
The direct solar-to-electricity conversion enabled by solar cells can play pivotal role in our future energy [...]
Green hydrogen: Large cost differences between regions and high transportation costs
The costs for the production of green hydrogen show a high range worldwide. Germany does not [...]
Climate Change Exacerbates Biodiversity Loss
Study in PNAS: Revised, post-2020 Biodiversity Targets Will Have to Consider Global Warming A considerable number [...]
Central Europe: Dry Aprils pave the way for summer droughts
Researchers identify the causes of dry springs and describe their long-term consequences In the past 20 [...]
Cost of Planting, Protecting Trees to Fight Climate Change Could Jump
Planting trees and preventing deforestation are considered key climate change mitigation strategies, but a new analysis [...]
Global arms industry: Sales by the top 25 companies up 8.5 per cent; Big players active in Global South
Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled US$361 billion in [...]
Study shows promising material can store solar energy for months or years
As we move away from fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy to tackle climate change, [...]
More bird species in their vicinity increase life satisfaction of Europeans as much as higher income
A high biological diversity in our immediate vicinity is as important for life satisfaction as our [...]
Tipping point for the climate can already be a reality in East Asia
The climate in inner East Asia may already have reached a tipping point, where recent years’ [...]
Changemakers of the renewabledecade
The European Solar Prize 2020 wasawarded to nine laureatesfighting for the energy revolution.Today EUROSOLAR awarded the [...]
Watching the Arctic Thaw in Fast-forward
The frozen permafrost in the Arctic is thawing on an alarming scale The frozen permafrost in [...]
World’s governments must wind down fossil fuel production by 6% per year to limit catastrophic warming
A special issue of the Production Gap Report – from leading research organizations and the UN [...]
Which factors trigger leaf die-off in autumn?
Researchers at ETH Zurich have identified a self-regulating mechanism in European deciduous trees that limits their [...]
A stable ocean circulation in a changing North Atlantic Ocean
New study shows surprising contrast between ocean properties and currents As a result of climate change, [...]