Call for participants: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History Anthropocene Histories KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden August 25-28, 2025 The ESEH and the Centre for Anthropocene History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are inviting applications for the 2025 ESEH Summer School to be held in and around Stockholm on the topic
Scientists at the University of Berkeley and the Weizmann Institute have developed a mutant version of the Rubisco protein that absorbs CO2 more accurately than its natural counterparts. Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short of one key metric: they don’t scale.
A chemist from the University of Cambridge has developed a reactor that extracts CO2 from the air and converts it into synthesis gas. A group of scientists led by chemist Erwin Reisner from the University of Cambridge have developed a new device. It collects (captures) CO2 and converts it into fuel. Instead of electricity, sunlight is used
Photo: Press Service of the Ministry of Ecology Uzbekistan to host CITES Conference of Parties anniversary meeting in 2025 Samarkand will host the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 2025. Uzbekistan, home to a wide range of
Photo:UNWTO Resilient tourism Global Tourism Resilience Day (17 February), proclaimed by the General Assembly in resolution A/RES/77/269, aims to emphasize the need to foster resilient tourism development to deal with shocks, taking into account the vulnerability of the tourism sector to emergencies. It is also a call for action for Member States to develop national strategies
2025 is unlikely to be warmer than 2024. Climate expert Alexey Kokorin has assessed its chances of becoming the hottest year in recorded history. Climate expert of the Nature and People Foundation Alexey Kokorin/Press Service of the Foundation “I would say that we should not expect global records of surface temperature in 2025. We can
Researchers from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have made a major breakthrough in understanding how the atmosphere deals with pollutants. It turns out that our planet’s gaseous envelope has become better at removing harmful gases , which could impact the climate system, according to a study published in Nature Communications (NatComms) . Photo:
BBC News Russian Service Photo: Reuters/Scanpix/LETA January was unusually warm not only in Ukraine, Siberia and western Russia — it was record hot on a planetary scale. After the warmest year on record in 2024, the new year 2025 immediately took another alarming climate change threshold , despite the fact that by January La Niña had formed in
Canada is experiencing a “solar sheep” boom, with demand for shepherds growing rapidly and wages for these “specialists” now on par with those of doctors, lawyers and senior engineers. Solar Shepherd More and more solar power operators in Canada are adding a second business to their electricity generation: sheep farming. “Solar sheep farming” is one
Solar energy is the most abundant of all energy resources and can even be harnessed in cloudy weather. Photo:Raphael Pouget/UNICEF Clean energy: for all… Energy lies at the core of a double challenge: leaving no one behind and protecting the Planet. And clean energy is crucial to its solution. In a world grappling with climate
