13.12.202412.12.2024 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 [...]
07.12.202405.12.2024 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 [...]
28.11.202427.11.2024 How to deal with the 1.5°C Climate Target German climate consortium gives recommendations in view of the foreseeable failure to limiting global warming to [...]
15.11.202414.11.2024 Custom-Colored Modules Increase Acceptance of Photovoltaics on Buildings The Institute of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy [...]
09.11.202408.11.2024 Climate change: island states are slowly sinking Pioneering research reveals some of the world’s least polluting populations are at much greater risk of [...]
04.11.202404.11.2024 More than one in three tree species worldwide faces extinction – IUCN Red List Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first [...]
28.10.202428.10.2024 Greenhouse gas concentrations surge again to new record in 2023 Greenhouse gas levels surged to a new record in 2023, committing the planet to rising temperatures [...]
20.10.202420.10.2024 WWF’s Living Planet Report 2024 Catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of wildlife populations in just 50 years reveals a [...]
18.10.202416.10.2024 E-Waste Dilemma: The Environmental Impact of Electronics In today’s world, electronic devices are indispensable. However, their production, use, and disposal have significant environmental [...]
12.10.202412.10.2024 Water in a Heated World In a climatically and geopolitically heated world, the challenges surrounding water are becoming substantially more acute. [...]
04.10.202403.10.2024 Citizen scientists help discover microplastics along the entire German coastline The AWI’s citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives” has analyzed 2.2 tons of sand from German coasts [...]
17.09.202416.09.2024 What dangers lie in industrial contaminated sites in permafrost? Industrial waste lurks in thousands of sites in the Arctic permafrost regions – some of it [...]
12.09.202411.09.2024 Study: Cloud cover reduced by large-scale deforestation Researchers from Leipzig University and Sun Yat-sen University in China have found that large-scale deforestation has [...]
09.09.202410.09.2024 Uncollected waste and open burning are leading causes of plastic pollution crisis A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish [...]
09.09.202409.09.2024 WorldRiskReport 2024: Urgent Need for Action in Times of Multiple Crises The WorldRiskReport 2024, published today by Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft (BEH) and the Institute for International Law [...]
05.09.202410.09.2024 More than 1300 tree species live in cities: are they gateways for forest pests? There are more than 1300 tree species in Swiss cities, while our forests are home to [...]