Climate Change

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Climate change affects Central Europe more intensely than the global average. We cover Slovak agriculture, water management, energy pricing, and the policy response from both Brussels and national governments.

Quick facts

  • Central Europe is warming faster than the global mean — roughly 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
  • The EU Green Deal targets climate neutrality by 2050, with a 55 % emissions cut by 2030 as the interim goal.
  • In Slovakia, the largest climate impacts hit forestry, water resources and agriculture.
How Supercooled Water Works—and Why It Has Two Liquid Phases Science

How Supercooled Water Works—and Why It Has Two Liquid Phases

Scientists have long known water behaves unlike any other liquid. The discovery of a second critical point in supercooled water finally explains why i...

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How Kidney Stones Form—and Why They Keep Coming Back Health

How Kidney Stones Form—and Why They Keep Coming Back

Kidney stones affect one in ten adults and are growing more common worldwide. Here is how these painful crystals form inside the body, what types exis...

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How Direct Air Capture Works—and Why It's So Hard Technology

How Direct Air Capture Works—and Why It's So Hard

Direct air capture technology pulls carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere using chemical sorbents and solvents, but enormous energy demands and...

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What Is a Kona Low and Why It Floods Hawaii Science

What Is a Kona Low and Why It Floods Hawaii

Kona lows are cold-core cyclones that reverse Hawaii's normal wind patterns, pushing moisture-laden air into the islands from the southwest and trigge...

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How Molecular Solar Batteries Store Sunlight as Heat Science

How Molecular Solar Batteries Store Sunlight as Heat

Molecular solar thermal (MOST) systems capture sunlight in chemical bonds and release it as heat on demand — a rechargeable, emission-free approach to...

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How Ice Melt Slows Earth's Spin—and Warps Time Science

How Ice Melt Slows Earth's Spin—and Warps Time

Melting polar ice redistributes mass from the poles to the equator, slowing Earth's rotation and lengthening days by milliseconds per century—with rea...

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What Is Earth's Albedo and Why It Keeps Dropping Science

What Is Earth's Albedo and Why It Keeps Dropping

Earth's albedo — the fraction of sunlight our planet reflects back to space — is declining to record lows, accelerating global warming through powerfu...

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Germany's Climate Protection Program: Not Enough for 2030 Science

Germany's Climate Protection Program: Not Enough for 2030

The German government has adopted its new climate protection program, but experts warn that the measures are insufficient to achieve the legally manda...

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How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming Science

How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming

Climate attribution science uses weather data and computer models to determine whether climate change made a specific extreme weather event more likel...

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How Space-Based Solar Power Works—and When It May Arrive Technology

How Space-Based Solar Power Works—and When It May Arrive

Space-based solar power stations would harvest sunlight in orbit and beam it to Earth as microwaves. After decades as science fiction, falling launch...

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How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread Science

How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread

Harmful algal blooms poison water, kill marine life, and cost economies billions. Here is how they form, what makes them toxic, and why they are growi...

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What Is Earth's Energy Imbalance and How It Works Science

What Is Earth's Energy Imbalance and How It Works

Earth absorbs more energy from the Sun than it radiates back to space. This growing gap, called the energy imbalance, is the master metric behind glob...

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