A paper published in the journal Joule on 4 October presents the most accurate model yet of how increasing wind power could affect climate change (1). Wind power reduces emissions
Archive for 2018
European Scientist had the pleasure of interviewing Bernard Durand, former Director of the Geology-Geochemistry Division of the French Institute of Petroleum and New Energies, then of the Ecole nationale supérieure
A new agreement signed in Greenland on 3 October has banned commercial fishing across much of the Arctic for at least the next 16 years. The international deal aims to
A new study published on 2 October in Nature Communications shows that anthropogenic warming will increase the burned areas due to fires in Mediterranean Europe (1). However, the findings suggest this
EU industry ministers have signed off on a €1 billion project to build the world’s fastest computer by 2023 in an effort to compete with China, the US, and Japan.
Freshwater fishes are among the most threatened groups of vertebrates and it is estimated that 39% of all European fish species face extinction within this century. During the early 2000s,
Ecology has reconnected the fundamental and sacred link that connects the environment to man. With this communion, it fills the void left by religions in an age of technological explosion.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has suspended an Italian theoretical physicist, Alessandro Strumia, whose research is currently funded by the University of Pisa and the European
Engineering Photosynthesis: Over-expressing an enzyme in maize could lead to higher yields
A new study published on 1 October in Nature Plants has shown that boosting the content of an enzyme called Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) can make maize (corn) plants more productive
As the 2019 elections approach, and the European project is undergoing profound political questioning, the Horizon Europe (FP9) programme ought to easily generate universal agreement. And in fact, in a