News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Peter Borchardt has studied a unique ecosystem in Kyrgyzstan, and in so doing has provided a basis for counting the number of trees around the globe.

The renowned Johannes Georgi Award for Meteorology 2016 goes to Martin Claussen, Professor of Meteorology at Hamburg University and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg. The prize has been presented to Prof. Claussen during the opening session of the meteorological...

This time of year, we should normally see a substantial rise in the amount of arctic sea ice. But the reality is quite different this year. This indicator of climate change was one of the central themes at the CliSAP Workshop on the Arctic and Permafrost.

In late 2013 the two cyclones “Christian” and “Haiyan” unleashed their destructive power: “Christian” swept across the North Sea in October, while “Haiyan” struck the Philippines in November. In a new visualization, Dr. Felicia Brisc from the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP shows the two storms in...

Commentary in “Nature Climate Change”: in the upcoming March issue, four respected oceanographers from the USA and Germany warn about the dangers of cutting back on successful programs to monitor ocean salinity.

Whether or not a company invests in climate protection depends on whether business mangers or engineers are responsible for emissions trading-related decisions. This was one of the key findings of a new CliSAP study.

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt" Kay Emeis is currently researching whether the ecological changes off the coast of southwest Africa are the product of climate change.

Das Jahr 2015 hat Krisen wie am Fließband sichtbar gemacht. Ukraine, Griechenland, Syrien, Irak, Afghanistan, Mali, Paris, Köln: Dies sind nur einige der Brennpunkte, an denen sich destruktive Entwicklungen entluden. Damit verbunden sind Flüchtlingskrisen und Umweltkatastrophen wie Stürme,...

Am 11. Februar wird Dr. Christiane Fröhlich, CliSAP-Wissenschaftlerin am Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik, am Pressefrühstück des Deutschen Klimakonsortiums (DKK) in Berlin teilnehmen. Fröhlich hat syrische Flüchtlinge in Jordanien befragt, in wie weit klimatische Bedingungen...

Die Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften hat einen Anneliese-Maier-Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung für die französiche Professorin Ève Chiapello eingeworben.