China’s dual strategy: renewables plus coal
China, with its population of 1.4 billion, is expanding its renewable energies at a pace that [...]
Month: August 2025
Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half [...]
Aesthetic and efficient facades: Fraunhofer FEP presents advances in building-integrated photovoltaics
As part of the Design-PV project, Fraunhofer FEP has made significant progress in developing aesthetically appealing [...]
Lake Kivu as “Living Lakes Lake of the Year 2025”
Lake Kivu, located between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been declared “Living Lakes [...]
AI and Robotics for the Reuse of Used PV Modules
The funded research project ‘WattsOK?’ has been launched. This innovative project uses artificial intelligence, optical inspection [...]
Possible North Atlantic overturning circulation shutdown after 2100 in high-emission future
28.08.2025 – Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean [...]
Hidden danger in forest soils
TU researchers prove microplastics are stored in forests for the first time. Microplastics and nanoplastics are [...]
Study links rising temperatures and declining moods
An analysis of social media in 157 countries finds hotter weather is associated with more negative [...]
Robots Control Traffic – KIT Tests Future Technology for Safe School Routes
A robot that helps children cross the street safely? What sounds like science fiction has become [...]
Saving bees with ‘superfoods’: new engineered supplement found to boost colony reproduction
A new study led by the University of Oxford could provide a cost-effective and sustainable solution [...]
Does Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
If a president has actually ended six or even seven wars – as Donald Trump claims [...]
Building and breaking plastics with light: Fabian Eisenreich rethinks plastic recycling
TU/e chemist unveils groundbreaking closed-loop recycling technology powered by LED light. What if recycling plastics were [...]
Extreme Weather Events: How Heat, Drought, and Flooding Affect European Regions in the Long Term
Extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, and floods affect the economic strength of European [...]
Falling Ice Drives Glacial Retreat in Greenland
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasing rate, a process accelerated by glacier calving, [...]
70 years of data show adaptation reducing Europe’s flood losses
Humans adapt to floods through private measures, early warning systems, emergency preparedness and other solutions. A [...]
Hot, hotter, heat deaths
Our planet has a fever. In southern Europe, there is no end in sight to the [...]