Ancient crystal growths in caves reveal seas rose 16 meters in a warmer world
The future of sea level rise may be written into the walls of coastal Spanish caves. Mineral “bathtub rings” deposited inside the limestone Artà Caves on the Balearic island of Mallorca show how...
Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone
Ever since the discovery of the first exoplanet in the 1990s, astronomers have made steady progress towards finding and probing planets located in the habitable zone of their stars, where conditions...
Germany says goodbye to nuclear power and oil
The country is driving a revolution; and renewable wind and solar energy are the mainstays of these transformations. In 2009, the country had 3800 megawatts of installed capacity in 2015 reached an...
Sustainable Agriculture
Over the last 10 000 years, agriculture was always seen as a vital social and economic sector throughout the world. However, implications of farming systems on environmental sustainability have...
Uruguay realizes huge achivements with wind energy
Currently, Uruguay generates 22% of its energy due to the force of the wind . It is estimated that next year the figure will increase to 38%, placing this country in the world podium of energy based...
Promising combination of solar energy and liquid battery
Although solar cells produce an increasing proportion of total electricity, there remains a fundamental limitation of its use: the dark of night, solar cells stop working. The lithium-ion batteries,...
Secrets of Lake Vostok in Antarctica, an underworld at 4,000 meters depth
One of the largest lakes in the world is in Antarctica sealed from above by four kilometers of ice. It is Lake Vostok, discovered by Russian scientists who sought to reach the reservoir of unfrozen...
