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We Need to Prepare for Rat-Borne Disease
According to the latest study by the EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and The Lancet, a warming and wetter climate increases the risk of one of Europe's underdiagnosed waterborne bacterial zoonoses under every future scenario examined.
The Solar Panel Revolution
In three decades, photovoltaics has gone from a laboratory curiosity to the world's cheapest source of energy – but the real breakthrough is still ahead.
The Returning Giant – a Super El Niño Is Coming
Climate models suggest a record-strength El Niño may develop in 2026 – with consequences ranging from heatwaves to droughts and floods, and Europe will not be spared.
Wastewater as a Data Carrier
Wastewater-based epidemiology has long gone beyond predicting epidemics – the sewer network is a real-time mirror of a whole community's health, social and environmental condition.
What Is Hydrogen Good For? – Industry, Energy, Transport
For decades, hydrogen has quietly kept heavy industry alive – now, through e-fuels and fuel cells, it is entering transport too.
The Paving-Everything Mania vs. the Sponge City
In these drought years, water retention has become a hot topic, but the discussion usually focuses only on the consequences of river regulation. Yet we also build our cities so that as little rain as possible can soak into the ground – which has local consequences too, such as heat stress.
Denmark Shows How Biogas Can Be Carbon-Negative
On 20 May, Denmark's Bigadan inaugurated a CO₂ facility in Kalundborg that delivers one of the world's first fully integrated, commercial-scale value chains for the permanent geological storage of carbon dioxide captured from biogas.
Explaining the Spring Drought
By the book, it should rain in spring, if only for the sake of farming – as the saying goes, rain in May is worth its weight in gold. But it does not rain. What lies behind this? Why is the lack of spring rain in Central Europe no coincidence?
How Is Hydrogen Made?
Steam methane reforming and coal gasification, then electrolysis in three ways – production methods differ widely in efficiency, CO₂ footprint and price per kilogram.
The Age of Hydrogen – Why Now?
We have talked about the Earth's lightest element as a potential energy carrier for decades – for the first time, it looks as if the hope is coming true.