Climate extremes hit stressed economies even harder
Economies already under stress respond more strongly to weather events like heat waves, river floods and [...]
Month: August 2023
Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates, Despite Cost Inflation
Global power sector saved fuel costs of USD 520 billion last year thanks to renewables, says [...]
European Energy unveils biggest solar farm in the Baltics
The biggest solar farm that will be built built to date in Lithuania and the Baltics [...]
Putin’s message to his “traitors”
From Putin’s point of view every critical journalist is a “traitor”. Putin has also called the [...]
UN Declares IRENA’s Founding Date as International Day for Clean Energy
IRENA endorses UN resolution proclaiming 26th January as International Day of Clean Energy, calling it a [...]
Solar powered irrigation: a game-changer for small-scale farms in sub-Saharan Africa
A new study finds that standalone solar photovoltaic irrigation systems have the potential to meet more [...]
New study finds ways to suppress lithium plating in automotive batteries for faster charging electric vehicles
A new study led by Dr. Xuekun Lu from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration [...]
Solar cells integrated into car hoods
In recent years, some car manufacturers have already presented the first vehicle models with photovoltaics integrated [...]
The sun will shine for another 4.5 billion years
The sun is our largest and most reliable source of energy. It sends us every second [...]
Microbe-stuffed soil crusts menaced by climate change
Novel approach to measuring microbe activity in wetted soil leads to better understanding of vulnerability, researchers [...]
It began with Adenauer
It was the zero hour after 1945, when Nazi Germany was defeated. 75 years ago, on [...]
Two thirds of the world’s biodiversity lives in the soil
Soil is the most species-rich habitat on earth. This is the conclusion of an overview study [...]
Hardly any recovery: Biodiversity in European rivers stagnates
An international team of researchers has analysed the state and development of biodiversity in European rivers [...]
Batteries on wheels
New charging technology to make e-cars suitable for mass use as mobile power storage units. Bidirectional [...]
Background paper outlines a strategic framework for German foreign climate policy
Ongoing deliberations within the German government receive input from the energy transition project Ariadne. The paper [...]
Nuclear weapons are weapons of terror
Worldwide, we currently spend more than 2,000 billion euros on armaments every year and at the [...]