News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Alexander Bassen investigates how the emissions trading system affects firm values.

“Post IPCC – where next for climate science?”– What are the challenges climate science faces today? This was the question posed by Prof. Julia Slingo, meteorologist at the UK Weather Service (Met Office), at the opening of the KlimaCampus Colloquium on Thursday. More than 120 people attended the...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Ines Schaudel investigates, how media recipients perceive climate change.

Two new talents have managed to impress the Wladimir Peter Köppen Award judges. The committee announced today that Franziska Strauss from the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna (doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences) and Sebastian Bathiany from...

The Institute of Soil Science hosted a DAAD-funded workshop to bring together colleagues and students from the University of Granada with members of the KlimaCampus. Together the groups discussed different methods of measuring greenhouse gas fluxes.

On October 09-11, 2013, KlimaCampus hosted the international workshop “Climate Change and Environmental Pressure: Adaptation and Resilience of Local Communities in the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya (HKH)”, supported by the Cluster of Excellence Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP). The...

In a new study, published in Nature Geoscience, Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen, director of the department "The Land in the Earth System" at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and speaker of the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, and researchers of his team analysed to what extent plant...

How will the warming of the Arctic affect the Siberian permafrost? And how much carbon dioxide and methane will be released when the ground thaws? Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is sponsoring the new Russian-German joint project “CarboPerm – Carbon in Permafrost:...

With 110 participants, the ICYESS (Interdisciplinary Conference of Young Earth System Scientists) started yesterday at the University of Hamburg’s KlimaCampus. Focusing on the topic of “Understanding and Interpreting Uncertainty,” post-docs, Master and PhD students from twelve countries compared...

News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt." Professor Gerhard Schmiedl is a micropaleontologist and analyses historical climate variations.