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AI: the good, the bad, and the forgotten

May 1, 2025
AI: the good, the bad, and the forgotten
AI: friend, or foe? (Credit: Lucia Perez-Diaz, www.luciaperezdiaz.com / @DrLPerezDiaz)

AI is here, and when I say here, I mean e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. For all you know, this blog may have been written by an algorithm (it wasn’t — I’m not a robot, promise. Or am I?). In what feels like the blink of an eye, AI has gone from a curiosity to a fully-fledged co-pilot in science (and out of science). It’s generating satellite imagery, helping compute paleo-climate predictions, or writing your ...[Read More]

Union of Justice report: Why racial justice should be at the core of Europe’s climate action

October 30, 2024
Union of Justice report: Why racial justice should be at the core of Europe’s climate action

I have had the opportunity last year to contribute to a novel, ground breaking research conducted by the Union of Justice, a European, independent, people of colour (POC) led organisation dedicated to racial justice and climate justice. The full report is live now and I am writing this blog post about it because I strongly believe that it is a must-read for anybody who would even wonder why racism ...[Read More]

Seaweed: an unlikely but promising food solution in nuclear winter?

May 17, 2023
Seaweed: an unlikely but promising food solution in nuclear winter?
Florian Ulrich Jehn, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED), Delaware, USA and Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany, presents at EGU23 Press Conference

A few weeks ago, at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly EGU23, a group of researchers from different disciplines briefed the media about the impact of war on the oceans, sands, and people. Among them, Florian Ulrich Jehn’s presentation stood out for its rather unlikely proposition: that seaweed appeared to be a promising candidate as a resilient food solution in nuclear winter. I ...[Read More]

Why hydrogen – the ‘fuel of the future’ – may not be as clean as we think

August 24, 2022
Why hydrogen – the ‘fuel of the future’ – may not be as clean as we think
Credit: Emmanuel Brocard (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

Around the world, the shift to hydrogen is being considered a key strategy to decarbonize the environment, with experts even calling it the fuel of the future. Hydrogen now features in all eight of the European Commission’s net zero emissions scenarios for 2050, promising to end our dependence on fossil fuels and reduce CO2 emissions across industries. So it comes as no surprise that billions of e ...[Read More]