Environment

Scientists Reveal Soot’s Role in Climate Change

Scientists Reveal Soot’s Role in Climate Change

14.08.2008

Environment, Climate

Scientists' findings may cause climatologists to rethink soot’s role in shaping the Earth’s climate. The scientists believe their findings may help...

Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President, Weizmann Institute of Science

Introduction to Alternative Energy

01.07.2008

Environment, Energy, Climate, Technology & Applications, Benefiting Humanity

Climate change, global resource management, energy use, pollution control: There is an enormous need for an array of innovative technologies that go...

What We Are Doing About: Alternative Energy

What We Are Doing About: Alternative Energy

01.07.2008

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

Creating environmentally friendly fuel from trash might be the ultimate recycling feat

Biosensor makes the plant glow (right) when thiamin levels drop

Ancient Throwback: New Technology

02.05.2008

Plants and Agriculture

A unique RNA switch in plants was engineered to show vitamin levels

Going for Green

Going for Green

01.05.2008

Biochemistry, Energy, Plants and Agriculture

Institute scientists are advancing the search for better fuel

Dr. Ilan Koren. Crucial African export

Have Dust – Will Travel

01.05.2007

Environment, Climate

African dust makes the rain forest grow

Dust to Gust

Dust to Gust

26.12.2006

Environment, Climate

The health of the Brazilian rain forest depends on dust from one valley in Africa

Dr. Ilan Koren. Clear data on clouds

Hard Rain

01.10.2006

Environment, Climate

Do tiny particles in the atmosphere cool things down or warm them up? The answer's not so simple

Illustration: multidisciplinary research towards sustainable energy

Fueling the Future

01.10.2006

Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Chemistry

With new initiative, the Insitute is going full steam ahead in the global effort to create a greener future

Dr. Einat Aharonov. How the mountain moved

Moving Mountains

01.10.2006

Environment, Math & Computer Science

Scientists reveal how an entire mountain moved south, about 50 million years ago

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