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   28.06.2017

   How are coffee plantations coping with climate change?

   A new tool was developed at the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability. It offers valuable support to help farmers judge whether or not their land is suitable for growing coffee. We spoke with geo-ecologist and CliSAP researcher Dr. Livia Rasche:

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   19.04.2017

   Stable treeline: How a valley in the Himalayas is defying climate change

   The Himalayas are experiencing rising temperatures and longer growth periods – so why isn’t the treeline advancing uphill? That’s a question that Niels Schwab and Birgit Bürzle from the Institute of Geography are investigating.

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   28.02.2017

   Interactive now! The global lithological map

   Zoom in and out and rotate the globe

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   20.07.2016

   Clearing the Tropical Rainforests: the Paris Climate Agreement would allow write-offs

   News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Michael Köhl investigated how the new Paris Climate Agreement could affect the rainforests.

    

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   19.07.2016

   Researchers simulate the emergence of leads in sea ice

   Scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) and the University of Hamburg have succeeded in realistically simulating the emergence of large channels in the Artic sea ice in a computer model. This allows the modelling of the heat fluxes between the ocean, ice and the atmosphere.

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   17.05.2016

   Mosses reduce methane emissions in wetlands

   News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt". Christian Knoblauch is currently investigating the amount of methane released from the soil in the arctic tundra, and the role that plants play in this.

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   17.03.2016

   There are more than three trillion trees in the world

   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.

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   01.12.2015

   High land carbon losses due to extreme assumptions

   Prof. Victor Brovkin from the Universität Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Dr. Daniel Goll comment in Nature Geoscience on a recently published paper by Wieder et al. (2015).

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   03.06.2014

   How fast is the Earth’s thermostat? Study shows significant changes in weathering

   In a joint study, Dr. Daniel S. Goll and Dr. Victor Brovkin from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Dr. Nils Moosdorf and Prof. Jens Hartmann from University of Hamburg, show that significant changes in weathering have occurred since the industrial revolution.

10. 26.04.2014

    Article in "Hamburger Abendblatt": What is the Value of the Rain Forest?

    News from Climate Science: Once a month, climate researchers report on their latest findings in the newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt. Dr. Daniel Plugge calculates carbon content of Madagascan forests as a basis for climate protection investments by industrial nations.