26.03.202425.03.2024 Researching the spread of drought It is important for water management to understand how drought spreads. In a new study, researchers [...]
21.03.202421.03.2024 Global water crisis looms yet only one in four of the biggest food and agriculture corporations say they’re reducing water use and pollution Only 28 percent of the world’s most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing [...]
21.03.202420.03.2024 Mapping chemical footprints in European streams UFZ analysis shows a mix of chemicals that endanger invertebrate organisms in particular It is well [...]
19.03.202419.03.2024 Climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023: WMO The state of the climate in 2023 gave ominous new significance to the phrase “off the [...]
19.03.202419.03.2024 Loss of nature costs more than previously estimated Researchers propose that governments apply a new method for calculating the benefits that arise from conserving [...]
15.03.202414.03.2024 Air Quality in Europe Shows Significant Improvements over the Last Two Decades, Study Finds Despite air quality improvements, 98.10%, 80.15% and 86.34% of the European population lives in areas exceeding [...]
12.03.202412.03.2024 Diverse forests hold huge carbon potential, as long as we cut emissions New study estimates that natural forest recovery could capture approximately 226 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon, but [...]
08.03.202408.03.2024 Major growth of clean energy limited the rise in global emissions in 2023 Global energy-related CO2 emissions increased as exceptional droughts hit hydropower, but rise was lower than in [...]
04.03.202404.03.2024 Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature [...]
03.03.202403.03.2024 Reflective materials and irrigated trees: study shows how to cool one of the world’s hottest cities by 4.5°C A combination of cooling technologies and techniques could reduce the temperature and energy needs of Riyadh, [...]
26.02.202426.02.2024 Global warming increases the diversity of active soil bacteria New findings enable more accurate prediction of the carbon cycle Warmer soils harbour a greater diversity [...]
17.02.202417.02.2024 Increasing nitrogen fertilization could pollute rivers and worsen water scarcity In the 2050s, one-third of the world’s rivers could be affected by water scarcity or be [...]
08.02.202407.02.2024 Campaigners push for widespread right to repair The Right to Repair Europe coalition, representing more than 130 organisations, celebrates that European consumers will [...]
03.02.202403.02.2024 Some Plastic Straws Degrade Quicker Than Others, New Study Shows WHOI researchers determine lifetimes of commercial drinking straws in the coastal ocean and develop a prototype [...]
01.02.202430.01.2024 Ozone stresses deciduous forests across Europe Ozone still causes visible damage to the foliage of European deciduous trees, as shown by a [...]
31.01.202430.01.2024 How Does Agriculture Affect Freshwaters? Agriculture secures our food supply and is an important economic factor. However, it also leaves its [...]