Leadership of women crucial to UN’s reinvention at 80, says former Assembly President

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 10, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Since the creation of the United Nations 80 years ago, only four women have served as President of the General Assembly, where all 193 UN Member States debate the key issues facing the world. On Tuesday, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock will become the first European woman...

The missing half: The urgent need for more women’s representation in the media

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 8, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Women make up half of the world’s population but receive only 26 per cent of media coverage, according to the latest UN-backed Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, the world’s largest study on gender representation in news media. “When women are missing,...

Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with ‘JUPITER’

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 8, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The new JUPITER supercomputer, inaugurated by Commissioner Zaharieva and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, has officially become the first European system to achieve the exascale threshold – that is, performing more than one...

Sustainable process breaks down keratin, turning leftover wool and feathers into useful products

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The textile and meat-processing industries produce billions of tons of waste annually in the form of feathers, wool and hair, all of which are rich in keratin—the strong, fibrous protein found in hair, skin and nails. Turning all that animal waste into useful...

Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050, UCSB scientists warn

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the oceans can seem limitless in their abundance and impervious to...

Danish Presidency debriefs EP committees on priorities

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 5, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council. Denmark holds the Presidency of the Council until the end of 2025. This text will be updated regularly as the hearings take place....