The drop in oil prices has created a huge mountain of debt and the lack of financing has triggered a wave of bankruptcies in the US fracturing industry. The collapse of oil prices in the spring caused a decline in drilling activities, especially in the USA. The raw material is said to have become almost

In Germany, less waste is to be produced and what is no longer used is to be increasingly recycled instead of ending up in incineration. In mid-September the Bundestag discussed waste prevention and recycling in order to initiate new rules for environmental protection. Two laws to be amended are the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste

Recently, the barren landscape of southern Tunisia has also become a place of solar power. At the end of last year, the first photovoltaic power plant in the North African country went into operation here, financed by the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) with 11.5 million euros. The 20-megawatt plant can generate about twice as

To generate energy from air sounds like a utopian dream at first - until today! Researchers have found out that it is quite possible to obtain energy from it. A device was developed that generates electricity from the humidity of the air. The key element is the so-called "air generator", which is driven by a

Many people are familiar with the common photovoltaic systems on the roofs of houses and buildings, but recently this technology can also be found on the water. Recently, for example, in NRW. Everyone knows that electricity can be generated from the sun's energy. However, this approach did not only have advantages. Along with wind energy,

Nuclear waste disposal is still a sensitive issue in Germany. It is estimated that more than 10,000 tonnes of radioactive waste will have been produced by the time the reactor is decommissioned. Consequently, the question is: Where to put it? The search is currently made more difficult by the corona pandemic, which like nuclear waste

A Norwegian start-up has set itself the task of creating farmland from the expanses of the Sahara. Already in the 1960s the construction of the Aswan Dam was a step into modern times for Egypt and the surrounding area. The planners already knew at that time that agriculture was dependent on the floods of the

Roman Hoffmann from the Institute of Demography at the Academy of Science (ÖAW) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, together with more than 30 colleagues, has investigated the effects and the interaction between environmental change, socio-political factors and migration. They not only looked at the primary changes caused by global warming, but also at

In 1890, Nikola Tesla already predicted that electricity could be transmitted wirelessly in the distant future. He backed up his statement with an experiment by wirelessly supplying two light bulbs with electricity over three kilometers. However, the generator of the power station burnt out at the time, which resulted in a power failure. This problem

According to the UN report, the pandemic and climate change are hardly getting any better. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane or nitrogen dioxide have continued to rise in recent years. This is at least mentioned in the report of the "United in Science", which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) mentions. An all-time high