De wereldwijde markt voor windenergie-installaties staat voor meerdere jaren van sterke groei, zo blijkt uit een studie van het Duitse Windenergie-instituut. De verwachting is dat het vermogen aan nieuwe installaties de komende tien jaar zal vervijfvoudigen. »

The newly-created European Nuclear Energy Forum met for the second time on 22-23 May and Italy's new government announced it will end a two-decade old moratorium on new plant construction in what is widely perceived as a nuclear 'renaissance' in the EU. »

NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars May 25 to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm. »

"Classical" laser light has become part of everyday life. There is a laser in every CD player, lecturers point to their slides with laser pointers and surgeons carry out medical operations with laser beams. Nevertheless there are numerous unusual kinds of laser light that are still largely unexplored, one of them being Diffusive Random Lasers. »

A geographer has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the millennium. The map reveals that between 3.5 and 4.5 million square kilometers of vegetation burns on an annual basis. This is an area larger than the country of India that is burnt every year. The information is vital for scientists and agencies involved in monitoring global warming, measuring and understanding pollutants in the atmosphere, managing forests and controlling fire and even for predicting future fire occurrence. »

Work is underway on a new satellite to monitor rising sea levels and to study ocean circulation and its impact on the world's climate. The Jason 2-Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) is a joint effort between the French space agency … »

Heeft het virtuele platform Second Life zijn beste tijd gehad? Steeds meer bedrijven en individuen blazen de aftocht. »

De Phoenix Mars Lander van de NASA is maandagochtend vroeg succesvol geland op de Rode Planeet. »

Scientists are carrying out a research project on the development of new systems to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions through the use of microalgae photosynthetic activity. The mechanism developed is simple on paper. By the gas emission points a water tank would be installed in order to retain the pollutant gases resulting from a specific industrial process. This polluted water would go through a system of bioreactors with a microalgae culture system, which would then transform the carbon dioxide emissions into vegetal matter and oxygen through the photosynthesis process, according to researchers. »

What will the loss of biodiversity cost us in the long term? How much do national economies need to invest now in order to stop the trend? And what price will we have to pay if we do not act? »