Trees reveal climate surprise – bark removes methane from the atmosphere
Microbes hidden within tree bark can absorb methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – from the [...]
Month: July 2024
How a plant app helps to identify the consequences of climate change
A research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig University [...]
Net effects of man-made nitrogen attenuate global warming
An assessment of the climate effects of nitrogen emissions from fertilisers and fossil fuels Nitrogen fertilisers [...]
Criminal US president or emancipated US president?
“Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are”, goes an old [...]
Kamala Harris: The Truths We Hold
Discover Kamala Harris’s New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and [...]
Evolution or revolution?
Do we now need a gradual evolution or a rapid revolution for the solar energy transition? [...]
Demand for electricity will continue to rise
Global electricity demand set to rise strongly this year and next, reflecting its expanding role in [...]
Unveiling a New Class of Synthetic Fuels
Researchers from RWTH, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and ETH Zurich have now [...]
Loss of oxygen in bodies of water identified as new tipping point
Oxygen concentrations in our planet’s waters is decreasing rapidly and dramatically – from ponds to the [...]
TU Ilmenau: New technologies for converting solar energy into green solar fuels
The Technische Universität Ilmenau is researching high-performance components and their properties in a large-scale federal project [...]
Small steps for electrons – big steps for the solar cells of the future?
Physicists at the University of Regensburg and the University of Oxford are using an ultrafast microscope [...]
Complex Impact of Large Wildfires on Ozone Layer Dynamics
Huge smoke-charged vortex doubles aerosol burden in the middle stratosphere and buffers ozone depletion. In a [...]
Large-scale battery storage from Rolls-Royce to complement Zeewolde wind farm from 2025
Rolls-Royce has received an order from Battery Park Zeewolde (BPZ) to supply a large-scale battery storage [...]
The Paris target is still achievable
One heatwave follows the next, one heat record after another. We are currently experiencing the fastest [...]
Tripling Renewables by 2030 Requires a Minimum of 16.4% Annual Growth Rate
Record growth in renewables must be significantly topped up in the remaining 7 years to meet [...]
Virginia Tech researchers work to create biodegradable bioplastics from food waste
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are making affordable bioplastics. Extraordinary amounts of [...]