
Paper food packaging at the centre of Europe’s waste crisis
NewsSome of the most regressive actors in the packaging value chain, such as single-use paper packaging producers and McDonald’s, have been conducting a massive lobbying campaign to greenwash single-use paper as a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics.

New life forms discovered in volcanic caves
NewsA new ecosystem has been discovered in volcanic caves beneath hydrothermal vents at a well-studied undersea volcano at 2.500m depth.

How the climate movement is killing itself
Comments, Front pageWhile water and fire descend over more and more places in the world and torment society, the climate movement is holding itself hostage in a paralyzing division.

Is natural hydrogen the biggest promise of all?
NewsHydrogen is both a promising carrier for energy and a source for quasi-endless discussion. Since those discussions mainly deal with the way to produce it, they may be silenced soon. Natural hydrogen is just waiting under our feet to be harvested. Can it rescue the energy transition in time?

Breakthrough: Making hydrogen from sunlight with record efficiency
NewsA new technology can make hydrogen from sunlight with record-breaking efficiency. The new device combines next-generation halide perovskite semiconductors with electrocatalysts in a single, durable, cost-effective and scalable construction.

The Great Unraveling: the world is falling apart in the polycrisis
NewsAfter an addictive period of progress and as the result of several, mutually reinforcing crises, in the Great Unraveling the world is falling apart both ecologically and socially. That process now has a name: polycrisis.

How sodium-ion batteries can transform battery storage
NewsThorough research and experimentation of sodium-ion batteries continues to take place as it is an industry with a huge market potential.

How swarm intelligence and AI prevent future energy blackouts
NewsThe energy transition does not just change the energy generation technologies we use, but also requires the power grids to be updated. Swarm intelligence and AI are the latest tools.

Green parks have economic value too
NewsA new framework developed by the University of Waterloo researchers demonstrates the significant economic health savings and benefits from investments in green parks.

New method to calculate biodiversity footprint for corporations
NewsResearchers at the University of Jyväskylä have developed a method for corporations to calculate their biodiversity footprint. The outcome of the study will be a method freely available to all companies and organizations for the assessment of their impact on nature.