There are two chief causes of migration: environmental destruction and global climate change on the one hand, and political oppression and violent conflicts on the other. What human mobility looks like under these conditions was the focus of an international workshop organized by CliSAP researchers...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Anja Jeschke is investigating equations for shallow water waves at the Cluster of Excellence.

On 15 June 2015, Dr. Victor Brovkin, CliSAP researcher and deputy head of the department „The Land in the Earth System“ at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), was awarded the academic title „Professor“ by the Universität Hamburg. The title „Professor“ according to §17 of the Hamburg...

Egypt’s densely populated coasts span 3,500 kilometers. Rising sea levels would have disastrous consequences along these shores. But how can we protect this exceptionally vulnerable area from climate change impacts? On the occasion of the “Cairo Climate Talks” at the beginning of June, CliSAP...

Universität Hamburg’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo) recently appointed meteorologist Professor Hans von Storch as a member. This complements his long-standing membership in the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences (MIN). The Faculty Council’s unanimous...

Professor Dr. Mojib Latif, Klimaforscher und Meteorologe, Professor Dr. Gernot Klepper, Umweltökonom, die Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Silke Beck und DKK-Geschäftsführerin Marie-Luise Beck stellten heute in Berlin das DKK-Positionspapier zu den „Perspektiven für die Klimaforschung 2015 bis 2025“...

How was the eastern Mediterranean Sea pushed into deep-water oxygen deficiency and collapse of deep-sea ecosystems during the early Holocene?

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Cultural anthropologist Dr. Werner Krauß is a fellow of the Cluster of Excellence in the project "Understanding Science in Interaction".

Dr. Tobias Ide from the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP at Universität Hamburg is currently investigating under which conditions conflicts over water, grazing land, forests and fishing rights escalate to violence. His findings were recently published in the journal “Global Environmental Change” and are...

Eine neue Studie der Universität Hamburg zeigt: Die Streitkräfte beziehen den Klimawandel in ihre strategischen Überlegungen ein. Alle 38 untersuchten Staaten erwähnen den Klimawandel in ihren offiziellen Strategiepapieren. Die meisten Länder erwarten, ihre Militärs vermehrt in der Katastrophenhilfe...