For a culture of peace
In his speech at the Easter March in Mannheim on 30 March 2024, Franz Alt calls [...]
Month: March 2024
Food matters: Healthy diets increase the economic and physical feasibility of 1.5°C
A global shift to a healthier, more sustainable diet could be a huge lever to limit [...]
2023 Billion-Ton Report: An Assessment of U.S. Renewable Carbon Resources
DOE Releases Report Outlining How America Can Sustainably Produce More Than One Billion Tons of Biomass [...]
EU climate policy: How the EU could regulate carbon removal
For the EU to effectively remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere in the future, [...]
No Doubt About It: EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars
As electric vehicles become a bigger part of the global car fleet, a contrarian take seems [...]
Record Growth in Renewables, but Progress Needs to be Equitable
Power capacity additions reached a new benchmark of 473 gigawatts in 2023, but many countries are [...]
WWEA Annual Report 2023: Record Year for Windpower
Total capacity exceeds 1’047 Gigawatt – 116 Gigawatt added in 2023 equaling 12,5% growth – China [...]
Researching the spread of drought
It is important for water management to understand how drought spreads. In a new study, researchers [...]
War against our planet Earth!
The military is destroying the foundations of human life It is becoming increasingly obvious: planet Earth [...]
Goodbye nuclear power!
“Nuclear power on the rise again” wrote the Munich newspaper tz at the weekend, shortly after [...]
Climate change risk to price stability: Higher average temperatures increase inflation
Rising temperatures could drive food inflation up by 3.2 percentage points and overall inflation by 1.18 [...]
Danger from China: How Europe’s wind energy sector can protect itself
Chinese manufacturers are flooding the global markets with cheap solar technology. Numerous European competitors are on [...]
The displacement society
CO2 emissions are rising worldwide, glacier melt is increasing dramatically, forest fires are catastrophic and the [...]
Global water crisis looms yet only one in four of the biggest food and agriculture corporations say they’re reducing water use and pollution
Only 28 percent of the world’s most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing [...]
Mapping chemical footprints in European streams
UFZ analysis shows a mix of chemicals that endanger invertebrate organisms in particular It is well [...]
The higher the wind turbine, the better
Hereon researchers have found out: Large new-generation wind turbines have less impact on their surroundings Wind [...]