Syria is free – but for how long?
Happy people, dancing youths, tears of joy: Syria is free! The tyrant has been overthrown. Moscow [...]
Year: 2024
Existing EV batteries may last up to 40% longer than expected
Consumers’ real-world stop-and-go driving of electric vehicles benefits batteries more than the steady use simulated in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Air Pollution and the Public Health Costs of AI
With the growing adoption of large language models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the enormous environmental footprint [...]
Baking in building details improves urban heat risk models
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a first-ever urban heat [...]
Climate change accounts for over a third of insured weather losses this century and rising
Cut emissions today to insure tomorrow, warns report as 2024 marks the first year to cross [...]
A new biodegradable material to replace certain microplastics
MIT chemical engineers designed an environmentally friendly alternative to the microbeads used in some health and [...]
A concept for a heating transition free of hardship
Differentiated climate money for buildings can defuse the controversial issue of “climate protection in the boiler [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Freedom with responsibility
Angela Merkel has simply called her memoirs ‘Freedom’. In doing so, the former Chancellor is emphasising [...]
Swelling Streams – Climate Change Causes More Sediment in High-Mountain Rivers
Many high-mountain rivers in Asia transport more sediment downstream compared to a few years ago. Changes [...]
Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo
Researchers find a potential explanation for the unusually sudden temperature rise in 2023: reduced low-level cloud [...]
Global Hydrogen Atlas Shows Potential Import Countries for Germany
In the long term, Germany will have to import a large proportion of its green hydrogen [...]
European Commission and EIB: new partnership for investment in European battery production
Today, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) are announcing a new partnership to [...]