18.12.202418.12.2024 Commonwealth Fusion Systems to Build World’s First Commercial Fusion Power Plant in Virginia CFS will independently finance, build, own, and operate the grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, [...]
18.12.202418.12.2024 Electric cars and photovoltaics: environmental impact of important raw materials Study highlights health risks of technologically critical elements for the energy transition. The transition to low-emission [...]
16.12.202415.12.2024 One of world’s largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in [...]
14.12.202414.12.2024 AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3C much faster than previously expected Three leading climate scientists have combined insights from 10 global climate models and, with the help [...]
14.12.202413.12.2024 Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than thought Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the USA, the Middle East, and Europe is [...]
11.12.202416.12.2024 A new biodegradable material to replace certain microplastics MIT chemical engineers designed an environmentally friendly alternative to the microbeads used in some health and [...]
09.12.202409.12.2024 Stopping climate change protects human health – a major project helps to pool the knowledge The moral obligation to protect people around the world against the climate crisis as best as [...]
09.12.202408.12.2024 Risk of a day without sea ice in the Arctic The climate warms fastest in the Arctic. The sea ice there has become so thin that [...]
01.12.202401.12.2024 Mapping the world’s climate danger zones With 2024 on track to be declared the hottest on record, scientists from IIASA and Columbia [...]
30.11.202430.11.2024 New Hybrid Catalyst for Clean Oxygen Production A research team at the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien, led by Professor Dominik [...]
30.11.202427.11.2024 Climate Impact of Carbon Crediting Projects Is Substantially Overestimated Emission reductions from climate mitigation projects are significantly lower than claimed, a new meta-study shows. A [...]
28.11.202427.11.2024 Unstable climate – bad luck for humanity Major study links the history of human development with climate data Whether cultures flourished or declined [...]
27.11.202425.11.2024 New Recyclable Plastic Breaks Down Safely in Seawater A new durable, biodegradable plastic breaks down in seawater, offering a potential solution to microplastic pollution. [...]
22.11.202421.11.2024 Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels The MIT spinout Emvolon is placing its repurposed engines next to methane sources, to generate greener [...]
18.11.202418.11.2024 Can the mealworm be the answer to Africa’s plastic waste problem? As Africa, alongside the rest of the world, contends with a growing challenge of plastic waste, [...]
16.11.202415.11.2024 Fossil fuel CO2 emissions increase again in 2024 Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new [...]