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HPS Home Power Solutions Collaborates with Wohnwerke to Equip Private Homes With picea, the Solar-Hydrogen-Based Power Supply

Berlin-based HPS Home Power Solutions GmbH and builders and architects Wohnwerke GmbH are launching a partnership for climate-friendly, private houses.

From Home Power Solutions (HPS) 11 Jun 2021

Evonik is Part of the Joint EU Project ReProSolar for the Complete Recycling of Photovoltaic Modules

Essen, Germany. Evonik is part of the ReProSolar project, which aims at developing a highly efficient and special process for the recycling of end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) modules. Evonik is part of the ReProSolar pro...

From Evonik 11 Jun 2021

International Energy Forum Launches Methane Measurement Project to Address Climate Change

The International Energy Forum has launched a new initiative to develop a measurement methodology for methane emissions from the energy industry, allowing its member countries to collect standardized data to address a major cause of climate change.

11 Jun 2021

Corals' Natural Sunscreen may Help them Withstand Climate Change

Researchers at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are one step closer to understanding why certain corals have the ability to endure climate change better than others and the secret may lie in a particular protein that creates a natural sunscreen.

10 Jun 2021

New Project Aims to Improve Water Security in the Middle East

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is involved in an international research project launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

10 Jun 2021

Embracing New Ways of Social and Economic Practices to Tackle Climate Crisis

Tackling the climate crisis will require embracing new ways of thinking and challenging dominant social and economic practices, a new book suggests.

10 Jun 2021

New Systematic Framework Helps Identify Feasibility Concerns Raised by Climate Mitigation Scenarios

While the IPCC is in the midst of the drafting cycle of the Sixth Assessment Report, whose publication will start in the second half of 2021 - one of the most relevant events for the global climate change community, there is an ongoing debate on how to assess the feasibility of ambitious climate mitigation scenarios developed through integrated assessment models and to what extent they are actually achievable in the real world.

10 Jun 2021

Clownfish Exposed to Artificial Lighting Die Faster

Young clownfish living closest to shore are dying faster than those further offshore because they are being exposed to artificial lighting, says an international research team.

10 Jun 2021

New Catalyst Helps Create Biofuel from Waste Food Materials

A student from the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at South Ural State University (SUSU) and the winner of the UMNIK competition is working on a project to produce a fundamentally new catalyst that will help generate affordable biodiesel fuel from waste food raw materials.

10 Jun 2021

New Computational Tools may Lead to More Efficient Electric Vehicles

Extensive adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles over conventional electric vehicles needs fuel cells that can safely convert oxygen and hydrogen into water — a major implementation issue.

10 Jun 2021

Beetle Study Finds Diversity in the Sub-Antarctic Linked to Global Cooling

An international research team led by Monash University has demonstrated that cooling temperatures and glacial cycles over the past 15 million years were essential for an explosion in terrestrial animal diversity throughout the Antarctic region.

10 Jun 2021

Curtin Study Finds Aspirin Takes the Headache Out of Restoration

New Curtin research has shown how a readily available, cheap and safe-to-use product found in the medicine cabinet of most homes could be the key to better ecological restoration practices with major benefits for the environment and agriculture.

10 Jun 2021

Harmful Algal Bloom Events Increase Along with Seafood Demand, Coastal Development

An unprecedented analysis of almost 10,000 Harmful Algal Bloom events worldwide over the past 33 years was launched today by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

9 Jun 2021

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Could Help Maintain Tree Diversity, Study Finds

When it comes to climate change, policymakers may fail to see the trees for the forest.

9 Jun 2021

Study Reveals how Deforestation Impacts Coastal Environment

Converting Central American tropical forests into agricultural land is changing the colour and composition of natural material washing into nearby rivers, making it less likely to decompose before it reaches the ocean, a new Southampton-led study has shown.

9 Jun 2021