Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan opened the exhibition "Zukunftsprojekt Erde" (Future Earth) on the "MS Wissenschaft" in Berlin today. One of the presentations on board is the "Urban Climate Architect" by the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP.

This month, the interview series "Klimaforschung made in Hamburg" presents Benjamin Runkle. In the CliSAP research group "Regional Hydrology in Terrestrial Systems", the graduated environmental engineer analyzes the interaction between the carbon cycle and hydrological cycle in permafrost soils and...

Scientists of the KlimaCampus outline the interrelationship between climate change and violent conflicts in the journal "Science". The article also considers key findings of their book "Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict", published this week.

International team of authors investigates the link between climate change and violent conflicts.

The director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Pakistan, Dr. Abid Q. Suleri, and the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Professor Heinrich Graener, signed a memorandum of understanding seeking to strengthen the newly established cooperation...

The Planet Simulator can simulate 400 years of climate development in a single day - on a normal computer. Around 40 scientists and students wanted to become acquainted with this flagship at the Meteorological Institute and have registered for the first PlaSim School at the KlimaCampus. The...

From the 10th to 12th of April, European methane researchers are meeting in Hamburg at an "Exploratory Workshop" of the European Science Foundation (ESF). The objective of the meeting is to harmonize the steadily increasing number of methane measurements worldwide and evaluate them jointly. With...

Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying bromine release, which results in ozone depletion and toxic mercury deposition in the Arctic environment, finds a new NASA-led study. The Universities of Hamburg and Bremen also participated.

From March 18th to July 23rd the research vessel FS Meteor is on a field trip again. She started in Lissabon and will cruise through the Faeroes Shetlands to Island. For the first time scientists from the KlimaCampus Hamburg will regularly report from board.

Scientists of the KlimaCampus Hamburg have succeeded in measuring the thickness of the thin Arctic sea ice over large areas using a new method. The researchers retrieved data from the remote sensing satellite SMOS, that was sent into space by the European Space Agency ESA in 2009. The results were...