25.09.202625.09.2026 New Material Is an Extreme Thermal Insulator Researchers have engineered a new material that is an extreme thermal insulator, is exceptionally stiff, and [...]
24.09.202624.09.2026 Harvesting hot electrons could break solar panel barrier Physics predicts that no more than 33 percent of the solar energy that falls on a [...]
23.09.202623.09.2026 Polystyrene nanoplastics may threaten reproductive health and offspring development Plastic pollution is increasingly being recognized as more than an environmental problem. Tiny plastic particles can [...]
22.09.202622.09.2026 Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems 21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires [...]
21.09.202621.09.2026 11 trillion tonnes lost since the 1970s: Ice sheet decline mainly due to accelerated glacier movement The longest satellite record ever assembled shows that Greenland and Antarctica have lost about 11 trillion [...]
17.09.202617.09.2026 152 Solar Records Measured in 40 Years: Fraunhofer ISE’s CalLab Celebrates Anniversary Over the course of its forty-year history, “CalLab” has tested the performance of thousands of solar [...]
11.09.202611.09.2026 The melting of the glaciers could release ancient methane New study raises concerns about climate feedback loop as melting Arctic glaciers flush ancient methane from [...]
10.09.202610.09.2026 Satellites spot forest stress two years before bark beetle die-offs become apparent A faint signal emitted during photosynthesis may reveal physiological stress well before tree mortality appears in [...]
09.09.202609.09.2026 More Energy at the Same Weight: Fraunhofer ISE Optimizes Battery Cells Together with partners from research and industry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has [...]
07.09.202607.09.2026 Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits Rising species numbers mask increasing loss of high-elevation specialists from European summit vegetation. Decades of warming [...]
31.08.202630.08.2026 A new milestone in photovoltaics: Solvent-free tandem solar cells Researchers from the Optoelectronic Thin-Film Materials Junior Research Group at the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering [...]
24.08.202624.08.2026 Semi-transparent PV Modules Developed Using an Industry-ready Manufacturing Process Organic solar modules score points for their flexibility, transparency, and a particularly good environmental footprint. Wavelength-dependent [...]
24.08.202621.08.2026 Human Activity More than Doubles Fire Occurrence in the Arctic The occurrence of fires in the Arctic is linked not only to warming temperatures and increasingly [...]
20.08.202620.08.2026 Area affected by wildfires in Europe could almost triple due to climate change Increasingly hot, dry and windy conditions could substantially extend the area affected by wildfires across Europe, [...]
19.08.202619.08.2026 Solar power’s looming crisis: growing PV waste could turn into a $100 billion industry The world’s rapid shift to solar power is creating a massive new waste problem, with up [...]
19.08.202619.08.2026 A New Approach to Drive Batteries: Safe, Repairable, Sustainable A research team led by TU Graz is providing new design guidelines for batteries in electric [...]