Auch wenn das Jahr nicht mehr ganz jung ist, stießen am vergangenen Freitag Forschende sowie Freunde und Freundinnen auf Einladung von CEN und CliSAP gemeinsam auf 2018 an.

Fish species living in the open sea, like herring or cod, are particularly important for the European fishing industry. A new research project will pave the way for better forecasting these fish stocks’ future, and assess how sustainable various management strategies are.

The 25 project partners...

In the course of the energy transition, the proportion of renewable energy in Germany has increased significantly in recent years. But the wind turbines, biogas plants and solar parks this change entails have repeatedly come under criticism. Can such conflicts be avoided?

Dr. Christian Franzke ist Experte für Statistik und forscht zu Klimawandel und Wetter- und Klimarisiken. Er zeigt, wie statistische Methoden die globale Erwärmung belegen - und was Klimaskeptiker dazu sagen.

In his review of Twitter communication on climate change in 2017 analyzed Prof. Michael Brüggemann (CEN) and his team which events triggered tweets about climate change - and to which domains these tweets linked to.

Dr. Christopher Hedemann was awarded this year’s Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize. The Cluster of Excellence CliSAP selected the Australian climate scientist, sociologist and literature scholar for his doctoral dissertation submitted at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. In his thesis...

This semester, for the first time, the online course “Climate Change, Risks and Challenges” was made a mandatory component of the Master’s degree program at the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS). Students, organizers and instructors alike are pleased with the results.

The North Sea is changing—not only for the worse. But even a positive trend may mean extra hours for scientists. An article by oceanographer Iris Hinrichs.

Two students of CEN researcher Prof. Dr. Michael Köhl spent four month in Fiji in order to develop a method for recording the biomass of mangrove forests and evaluating their carbon-storage capacity.

The sociologist Stefan Aykut has explored the negotiations during the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. What he’s found: the agreements produced by these conferences aren’t the only key to their success.