Environmental Sustainability
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute are making great strides in understanding the causes, impacts and possible solutions to climate change. This flagship project focuses on bringing together the best minds to intensify scientific research and discovery to fuel innovation and lead to sustainable solutions that will protect our planet’s future.
Powered by its world-leading fundamental and multidisciplinary research approach, the Institute for Environmental Sustainability (IES) at the Weizmann Institute, will lay the scientific foundations needed to develop and monitor real-world solutions.
Backed by the full force of its bold, agile and collaborative culture, IES will work as a dedicated platform for education, support, data, shared resources and collaboration across disciplines and research centers. As of 2020, products based on Weizmann research have generated billions of dollars in global sales. For example, the Weizmann Institute’s Bina incubator unit and Yeda tech transfer arm have an outstanding track record of translating scientific and technological breakthroughs into useful applications. They will feed a pipeline of innovation that can help reverse the negative impacts of climate change and create a healthier planet.
As global leaders in science Weizmann’s goal is to make the next 10 years really count. Read how Weizmann scientists plan to do this in Turning the Tide on the Environmental Crisis:
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Seeding the Passion
A plant sanctuary established in the Weizmann Institute greenhouses holds valuable lessons for survival and helps to instil a love for plant conservation. When PhD student Gal Raviv thought of creating a sanctuary garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, what she...
Weizmann Institute of Science Moves to 100% Green Electricity
The Weizmann Institute of Science is switching to the use of only green electricity and is becoming an almost fully renewable energy campus – alongside making sustainability and climate change a central theme of its research efforts. This shift brings many benefits,...
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A Weizmann Institute study of super-tough organisms reveals strategies for creating more sustainable, resilient human-made materials. Humans are by no means alone in the search for more sustainable materials. Nature, too, has been 'working' on the problem of...
Stormy Findings and Hot Discoveries
How are humans affecting the Northern Hemisphere’s wind patterns? A new Weizmann Institute of Science study shows how. The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record and was unfortunately no surprise. Summers have been getting hotter and drier around the world,...
Into the Light
Will a better understanding of photosynthesis help us grow plants under artificial light? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science is looking to answer this question. Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and certain kinds of bacteria convert...
Surprising New Material Gets the Lead Out
A new Weizmann Institute of Science ceramic could replace lead-based electronic components. Produced in the Weizmann lab or Professor Igor Lubomirsky’s this material seems too good to be true. It belongs to a class of materials that are the backbone of many essential...
Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have produced the first global estimate of the combined weight of all land insects and related arthropods. Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors...
Look on the Bright Side of Earth
Why do Earth’s hemispheres look equally bright when viewed from space? Weizmann Institute scientists offer a solution to this 50-year-old mystery. When looking at the Earth from space, its hemispheres – northern and southern – appear equally bright. This is...
The Heat Is On: Weizmann Institute Scientists Uncover Traces of Fire Dating Back At Least 800,000 Years
They say that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are working hard to investigate that claim, or at least elucidate what constitutes ‘smoke’. In an article published this week in PNAS, the scientists reveal an advanced,...
How ‘Great’ was the Great Oxygenation Event?
Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet experienced what was possibly the greatest change in its history: According to the geological record, molecular oxygen suddenly went from non-existent to becoming freely available everywhere. Evidence for the ‘great oxygenation...