UN warns of ‘global water bankruptcy’
Water is our staple food. A person can survive for several weeks without food, but only [...]
Month: January 2026
Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity and climate resilience under pressure
Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species displace [...]
UNEP’s 2025 Champions of the Earth award recognizes five climate trailblazers
As the world moves to slow climate change and create a more sustainable future, the UN [...]
Forest soils increasingly extract methane from atmosphere
Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: they remove large quantities of methane [...]
New report: EU installs 27.1 GWh of new batteries in 2025 as utility-scale storage drives record growth
27.1 GWh of new battery capacity installed in 2025, marking the EU’s 12th consecutive record year [...]
New method helps explain how solar cells can repair themselves… using sunlight
UNSW researchers have devised a process that identifies exactly how solar cells are damaged by ultraviolet [...]
UNU-INWEH report on ‘Global Water Bankruptcy’
The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has released a new flagship [...]
Martin Green about solar modules without glass
Professor Martin Green of the University of New South Wales in Australia is a living legend. [...]
High-Performance Solar Evaporator for Seawater Desalination—Turning Seawater into Drinking Water via Sunlight
A research team, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a new technology that can convert seawater into [...]
UN: For a world without nuclear weapons
Finally, the time had come: on 22 January 2021, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of [...]
Ventilation of the North Atlantic is Weakening
Slower renewal of deep waters may signal climate change The renewal of deep waters in the [...]
How markets should be designed for non-permanent carbon removals
Carbon dioxide removal technologies are becoming increasingly important for climate action, but their differing storage times [...]
Full value added tax on meat
A first step towards pricing the environmental damages caused by diets. A study from the Potsdam [...]
C.G. JUNG: ‘We have become rich in knowledge, but not in wisdom.’
In the first days of January 2026, President Trump violated international law by invading Venezuela and [...]
Europe’s crop droughts to get worse even as rain increases
Europe and western North America will experience more frequent and severe crop droughts as the planet [...]
Forests under climate stress – Why trees are growing less despite an early start
Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing [...]