While negative climate tipping points tend to frighten and frustrate us, some researchers have recently raised hope and motivation by pointing the focus on so called "positive climate tipping points". They address the issue of...

When it comes to the topic of climate change, we often hear about "tipping points". With tipping points, climate scientists refer to critical thresholds that, once crossed, can boost huge and potentially irreversible changes in...

After several moments of hesitation, for example due to the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany has finally switched off its last three nuclear power plants in spring 2023. Instead, the German focus...

The production of energy using nuclear power plants not only bears the risk of devastating nuclear accidents, as seen quite recently again in Fukushima, with the Chernobyl disaster being the historically most famous example. It...