Batteries power the clean energy transition, but their production comes at a cost — environmental and human health impacts from critical mineral extraction and processing. A new study, by the Yannay Institute for Energy Security at Reichman University, highlights the risks and offers sustainable solutions including circular economy strategies and pollution mitigation measures to ensure energy storage technologies truly benefit the planet and its people.

A new European Wetland Map shows Europe's peatlands, floodplains and coastal wetlands more comprehensively than ever before in one map. Compiled from about 200 data sources, this map informs policy makers, land users and anyone interested in wetlands about the distribution and types of peatlands, it can also show for example potential areas at risk of flooding. On World Wetlands Day on February 2nd, the Greifswald Mire Centre is publishing the map in a collaboration between the projects ALFAwetlands, WET HORIZONS and European Climate Initiative.