Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3,000 times more carbon dioxide than online conference
Friday, September 11, 2020 - 09:31
in Earth & Climate
Leiden astronomers have published two articles on more sustainable astronomy in a special section of the journal Nature Astronomy. Among other things, they calculate that their online conference EAS 2020 consumed 3,000 times less carbon dioxide than the face-to-face edition a year earlier. They also show that the programming language Python, which is often used by astronomers, demands excessive electricity.