Producing batteries for electric cars requires a complex and globally networked supply chain. In a recent study, researchers ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers at Linköping University have developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled ...

The Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which came into force in 2000, triggered an unprecedented boom in the installation of renewable energies in Germany and encouraged dozens of other countries to ...

‘After the triumph of renewable energies, the next energy revolution is now emerging, largely unnoticed by the public: ‘Soon there will be solar power even at night, and wind power when there is no ...

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO₂ and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 ...

News stories that highlight potential solutions alongside the harsh realities of climate change can spur people to action — as long as the stories empower readers to see their own role in the solution ...

The Climate Risk Index (CRI) ranks countries by the human and economic toll of extreme weather. The latest edition highlights increasing losses and the urgent need for stronger climate resilience and ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Dr Tom Chudley, in our Department of Geography, led a new large-scale study of crevasses – wedge-shaped ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good quarter are from 2020 or ...

Increase in electricity consumption through 2027 expected to average around 4% annually, driven by growing use for industry, ...

But: Only 10 per cent of projects in the G7 countries, although they have almost 50 per cent of the wealth! The key findings ...

Even the super-rich and the super-powerful can’t have it all their own way: Erich Honecker experienced it in the GDR in 1989 and dictator Assad in Syria in 2024. And before that, Stalin, Hitler, ...