A New Solid-state Battery Surprises the Researchers Who Created It
Engineers create a high performance all-solid-state battery with a pure-silicon anode Engineers created a new type [...]
Month: September 2021
Reducing tropical cyclone impacts
The double benefit of climate protection through both limiting and delaying global warming Increasing global warming [...]
Today’s children to experience two to seven times more extremes than their grandparents
Today’s children will be hit much harder by climate extremes than today’s adults, researchers show in [...]
Diversity matters: Species richness keeps ecosystems running
Increased biological diversity improves ecosystem functioning. A heterogeneous environment further promotes this positive effect of biodiversity [...]
Making climate policy work in Asia
MCC provides a starting point for tailor-made carbon pricing with social compensation: it calculates the impact [...]
European Glass-Glass Photovoltaic Modules Are Particularly Climate-Friendly
In a new study, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have calculated [...]
New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution
Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, alongside climate change. New [...]
The next generation of glowing plants
Using nanoparticles that store and gradually release light, engineers create light-emitting plants that can be charged [...]
Poorer nations expected to face up to $75 billion six-year shortfall in climate finance: Oxfam
Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to $75 billion short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge [...]
Think Like a Monk
The Secret of How to Harness the Power of Positivity and be Happy Now Jay Shetty, [...]
The value of hydrogen in heating
To achieve climate neutrality by 2045, the heating market must decarbonise and reduce its CO2 emissions [...]
Plastic worsens the climate crisis, from the Philippines to the United States
From fires made worse by heatwaves and droughts, to floods and mudslides tied to increasingly severe [...]
Study provides basis to evaluate food subsectors’ emissions of three greenhouse gases
A new, location-specific agricultural greenhouse gas emission study is the first to account for net carbon [...]
Global Witness reports 227 land and environmental activists murdered in a single year
As the climate crisis intensifies, violence against defenders of the earth is escalating. A report released [...]
Bosch does away with the “charging brick”
Lightweight: the Bosch cable needs no in-cable control box and, at under three kilograms, weighs a [...]
Energy Saving Potential in Private Households as an Important Element for a Successful Energy Transition
Home office and reduced social contacts outside one’s home have resulted in an increase of electricity [...]