Politics 12.12.2020 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 [...]
Science 12.12.202011.12.2020 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. [...]
Science 11.12.202011.12.2020 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 [...]
Science 11.12.202010.12.2020 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 [...]
Science 08.12.202008.12.2020 Climate Change Exacerbates Biodiversity Loss Study in PNAS: Revised, post-2020 Biodiversity Targets Will Have to Consider Global Warming A considerable number [...]
Science 08.12.202007.12.2020 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 [...]
Environment 08.12.202007.12.2020 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 [...]
Politics 07.12.2020 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 [...]
Science 06.12.202005.12.2020 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, [...]
Environment 05.12.202004.12.2020 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 [...]
Science 05.12.202004.12.2020 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’ [...]
Politics 04.12.202004.12.2020 Changemakers of the renewabledecade The European Solar Prize 2020 wasawarded to nine laureatesfighting for the energy revolution.Today EUROSOLAR awarded the [...]
Science 04.12.202004.12.2020 Watching the Arctic Thaw in Fast-forward The frozen permafrost in the Arctic is thawing on an alarming scale The frozen permafrost in [...]
Politics 03.12.202003.12.2020 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 [...]
Environment 02.12.202030.11.2020 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 [...]
Uncategorized 02.12.202001.12.2020 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, [...]