Environment

Scientific Reports
South Korea’s giants team up to build better robot batteries
Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung SDI join forces to develop high-performance robot batteries, aiming to boost efficiency, power, and operating time
Editorial Team•31 March 2025

Climate Change
SStronger climate policies could boost global…
Climate action impact on GDP: ambitious policies today mean +3% by 2050…
Editorial Team•28 March 2025

Water Management
Ocean currents: a near-constant renewable energy…
Ocean currents provide steady, predictable renewable energy, helping reduce fossil fuel use…
Editorial Team•28 March 2025

Scientific Reports
IEA, Clean Technology Market: It Will Reach the Value of Oil
nergy Technology Perspectives 2024 Published. Based on current policy settings, the global clean energy technology market…
Editorial Team•30 October 2024

Climate Change
Respecting 1.5°C is still ‘technically feasible’: data from the Emissions Gap Report…
The annual report from the UN Environment Agency updates the key indicators to assess our remaining…
Editorial Team•25 October 2024

Climate Change
Gold, smartphones, and renewables fuel mining-driven deforestation
Since 2001, 14,000 km² of forests have been lost due to mining activities and related operations—an…
Editorial Team•24 October 2024

Climate Change
Since 2001, forest fire emissions have increased by 60%
Warmer, drier climates and higher forest growth rates are factors—linked to the climate crisis—that fuel forest…
Editorial Team•23 October 2024

Pollution
Whales mistake plastic waste for squid and unintentionally poison themselves
Hunting using acoustic signals to navigate in the deep sea, cetaceans mistake plastic waste for their…
Editorial Team•22 October 2024

Climate Change
Global carbon capture capacity remains stalled: only 51 million tons of CO2…
The CCS Institute has updated its global monitoring of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. While…
Editorial Team•18 October 2024

Climate Change
For Europe, adaptation to climate change is still a black hole
Report from the European Court of Auditors on actions for climate crisis adaptation. States provide generic…
Editorial Team•17 October 2024

Pollution
To reduce plastic pollution, we need to produce less and tax packaging
The OECD publishes a report proposing to reduce plastic pollution by 96% by 2040 with draconian…
Editorial Team•11 October 2024

Water Management
Rivers and glaciers never in such agony: the 2024 data on the…
The annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights the poor state of global water…
Editorial Team•10 October 2024

Climate Change
Vital parameters of the Earth, 25 out of 35 reach extreme records
The “2024 State of the Climate” report highlights a deterioration, with 20 red-alert indicators in 2023.…
Editorial Team•9 October 2024

Climate Change
The LNG imported from the United States pollutes 30% more than coal
A study by Cornell University calculates the carbon footprint of liquefied natural gas by including all…
Editorial Team•8 October 2024

Scientific Reports
Microplastics in corals could explain the “missing plastic problem”
Discovered by an international team, microplastics in corals remain trapped for a long time, disappearing from…