24.12.202222.12.2022 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 [...]
22.12.202220.12.2022 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 [...]
20.12.202219.12.2022 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 [...]
17.12.202215.12.2022 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 [...]
16.12.202216.12.2022 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 [...]
16.12.202215.12.2022 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 [...]
14.12.202213.12.2022 Good vibrations turbo charge green hydrogen production Engineers in Melbourne have used sound waves to boost production of green hydrogen by 14 times, [...]
23.11.202221.11.2022 A world map of plant diversity Why are there more plant species in some places than in others? Why is diversity highest [...]
19.11.202218.11.2022 2-in-1 Thin-film Photovoltaics Paired for Higher Performance ZSW combines perovskite with CIGS to build a tandem solar module with 21+ percent efficiency Highly [...]
15.11.202214.11.2022 A novel concept for photovoltaics developed at TU Dresden The group of Prof. Yana Vaynzof at the Integrated Center for Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) [...]
12.11.202212.11.2022 Biodegradable microplastics in soils cause CO₂ emissions to rise Biodegradable microplastic particles in soils can lead to an increased rise in CO₂ emissions to the [...]
12.11.202211.11.2022 Hydrogen-producing rooftop solar panels nearing commercialization KU Leuven researchers have developed rooftop panels that capture both solar power and water from the [...]
11.11.202211.11.2022 Bridging periods of reduced sunlight and peak loads in a climate-neutral way using salt Together with stakeholders from industry and research, DLR has developed a storage system that can be [...]
03.11.202202.11.2022 Blind spots in the monitoring of plastic waste KIT researchers and partners suspect that much more plastic is transported in flowing waters than previously [...]
02.11.202202.11.2022 Global Collaboration is Key to Saving Billions for Solar Module Production Study published in Nature quantifies for the first time past and future country cost savings to [...]
31.10.202231.10.2022 More methane from Siberia in summer What happens in the vast permafrost regions of the Arctic when the atmosphere heats up more [...]