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Study Shows Link Between Global Energy Change and Demographic Transition

Switching to modern cooking fuels like gas or to electricity can improve the well-being of women in the global South, and eventually be connected to falling birth rates, a new study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows.

14 Dec 2021

Understanding the Nutrient Response of Plants Could Enhance Global Food Production

Photosynthesis is the complex biochemical process by which green plants and a number of other organisms transform the Sun’s energy into chemical energy. During this process, the captured light energy is used to con...

13 Dec 2021

New Tools to Help Electric Delivery Vehicles Navigate Strategically with Minimal Energy

Running out of battery can pose serious impacts, range anxiety with electric commercial vehicles seems to be a real scenario. At the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, scientists have come up with tools to enable electric delivery vehicles to navigate tactically such that as little energy as possible is used.

13 Dec 2021

Simple Changes to the Management of Solar Parks Could Boost Bumble Bee Populations

New research shows that simple changes to how UK solar parks are managed could boost ground nesting bumble bee populations in the parks and surrounding areas, providing an additional benefit on top of renewable energy.

13 Dec 2021

New System can Extract More Energy from Biomass

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" have designed a new system that allows more to be got from biomass thanks to a chemical reactor that works with a small solar power facility.

10 Dec 2021

Microgrids and Solar Power Offer a Promising Way to Reduce Outages

Climate change is fueling more floods, droughts, wildfires, and extreme storms across the United States. As a result, aging power grids are being pushed beyond their limits, sometimes with deadly impacts. (In 2020, a series of unusual winter storms knocked the power out in Texas for days -- leading to shortages of water and heat and more than 100 deaths.)

8 Dec 2021

New Robust Tool for Faster, Economical, Easier Coral Reef Monitoring

Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the University of Tokyo, and the Okinawa Prefecture Environment Science Center have engineered a tool that can establish the diversity of hard corals on a reef by examining the DNA in a sample of seawater.

7 Dec 2021

Study Explores the Climate Impact of Blue Hydrogen

An international group of researchers led by the Paul Scherrer Institute and the Heriot-Watt University has carried out in-depth analyses of the climate impact of blue hydrogen.

3 Dec 2021

Waga Energy and Meridiam Secure Refinancing of Four Biomethane Units from French Banks Consortium

Waga Energy, the European leader in the production of biomethane from landfill gas, and Meridiam, an investment fund specializing in public infrastructure finance, obtained a non-recourse loan of 10.4 million euros from BNP Paribas and Banque Populaire Grand Ouest to refinance four WAGABOX® biomethane units located in France.

From Waga Energy 3 Dec 2021

Researchers Join with Industry Partners to Better Capture Electric Power from Renewable Energy Sources

As the effects of climate change escalate and countries around the world set goals for reducing greenhouse gases, renewable energy has become the path to a cleaner future.

2 Dec 2021