Safety for a million years?
US President Barack Obama wanted to build a nuclear waste repository in the Nevada desert more [...]
Year: 2022
Skiing no longer guaranteed – even with snow guns
For many people in Switzerland, holidays in the snow are as much a part of the [...]
Fishing in the wake of the Oder River disaster shows no sign of recovery
Very few fish and still elevated salinity levels IGB has been fishing the Oder at least [...]
Humans and nature: The distance is growing
Meta-analysis of scientific literature shows decline of interactions with nature due to growing urbanisation, but systematic [...]
Is peace still possible?
Is peace still possible even now in the midst of war? This is what many people [...]
Overshooting climate targets could significantly increase risk for tipping cascades
Temporarily overshooting the climate targets of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius could increase the tipping risk of several [...]
World record back at HZB: Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency
The current world record of tandem solar cells consisting of a silicon bottom cell and a [...]
Early green, early brown – climate change leads to earlier senescence in alpine plants
Global warming is leading to longer growing seasons worldwide, with many plants growing earlier in spring [...]
DINA study shows loss of insect diversity in nature reserves due to surrounding farmland
Insect decline is also progressing in German nature reserves. One reason for this is the intensification [...]
“A nuclear power plant is not a Märklin railroad”
There are two dangerous fantasies in German energy policy at the end of 2022: Longer nuclear [...]
Producing ‘green’ energy — literally — from living plant ‘bio-solar cells’
Though plants can serve as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they’re not often considered [...]
New Material for Energy Storage and Optoelectronic applications
Researchers at TU Berlin have developed a new material from the class of microporous, metal-organic framework [...]
Energy crisis: MEPs back plans to boost the deployment of renewables
Faster procedures to issue permits for renewable energy installations – A boost for the EU’s domestic production [...]
Whitepaper: Electromobility for a successful energy revolution
Switching all cars to all-electric drives requires yearly increase of 1.8 percent in renewable energy. Power [...]
2,400 gigawatts by 2027: IEA expects massive and fast renewables expansion
The first truly global energy crisis, triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has given renewables an [...]
New process boosts efficiency of bifacial CIGS thin film solar cell
Bifacial thin film solar cells based on copper indium gallium diselenide or CIGS can collect solar [...]