This Fragile Planet
This Fragile Planet: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Environment An ethical approach to dealing with [...]
Month: July 2021
The July 2021 flood disaster in Germany and the Climate Crisis
Statement of Scientists for Future on the extreme weather events in July 2021 Human-made global warming [...]
Photovoltaics Report Delivers Facts about Solar Energy Worldwide
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, supported by PSE Projects GmbH, has been publishing [...]
A global comparison of life-cycle GHG emissions from passenger cars
A far-reaching new study of the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger cars, including SUVs, [...]
Lead-free perovskite solar cells – How fluoride additives improve quality
Tin halide perovskites are currently considered the best alternative to their lead-containing counterparts, which are, however, [...]
The Flooded Earth
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Sea level rise will happen no matter what [...]
Dealing with global carbon debt
As atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continue to rise, we are putting future generations at risk of [...]
Solar cells: Layer of three crystals produces a thousand times more power
The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three [...]
Pathogenic fungi colonise microplastics in soils
Representatives of numerous pathogenic fungal species are finding new habitat on microplastic particles in the soil [...]
Focus on global plastic pollution
Review article highlights consequences of weathering and degradation processes and warns of potentially irreversible pollution. Current [...]
Shoppers’ Mobility Habits: Retailers Overestimate Car Use
Retail traders often fear that reducing the amount of urban space made available for parking private [...]
With only 2% of governments’ recovery spending going to clean energy transitions, global emissions are set to surge to an all-time high
IEA’s new Sustainable Recovery Tracker monitors governments’ fiscal responses to the Covid-19 crisis and estimates their [...]
Coastal Ecosystems Worldwide: Billion-dollar Carbon Reservoirs
Coastal ecosystems such as seagrass meadows, salt marshes and mangrove forests are valuable to humans in [...]
Global electricity demand is growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from fossil fuels
New IEA report sees 5% rise in electricity demand in 2021 with almost half the increase [...]
Soaring e-waste affects the health of millions of children, WHO warns
First WHO report on e-waste and child health calls for more effective and binding action to [...]
Community energy: More women, more success
Above all, women like Greta Thunberg or Luisa Neubauer, as initiators of the Fridays for Future [...]