09/17/2015 - The window of opportunity for a global fossil fuel phase out is closing faster than expected. In particular poor but fast-growing developing ...

09/11/2015 - Burning all of the world’s available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study to be ...

"Burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the (Antarctic) ice sheet,", resumes a new PIK-study by an international ...

"To be blunt: If we burn it all, we melt it all," resumes PIK-scientist Ricarda Winkelmann, who led an international research team that explored the ...

09/11/2015 - The growing world population, climate change, rapid urbanisation, and the international interdependence of economies are all increasing our ...

09/10/2015 - What´s in store at the next climate conference, COP21, later this year? This week, staff of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...

08/03/2015 - Greenhouse-gas emissions from human activities do not only cause rapid warming of the seas, but also ocean acidification at an unprecedented rate. ...

08/27/2015 - The advance of certain algae was probably one key contribution to an almost complete glaciation of the Earth millions of years ago. The consequent ...

08/25/2015 - From the Earth System to the human brain, from families to Facebook – complex networks can be found everywhere around us. Describing the structure ...