05/16/2008 - Climatic change is endangering Earth’s biodiversity, the natural variety of plants and animals. Ahead of the upcoming conference of the parties of ...

02/05/2008 - Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively ...

02/01/2008 - Climate change is making a central assumption of water management obsolete: Water-resource risk assessment and planning are currently based on the ...

12/11/2007 – The Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. (DUH) has awarded Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) the Environment Media ...

08/31/2007 - The Potsdam Institute has become one of the top 1% of institutions whose publications in the field of geosciences have been cited most frequently

02/02/2007 - The new climate science assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to which scientists of the Potsdam Institute for ...

05/16/2007 - On the initiative of Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK, the scientific academies of the G8+5 countries have prepared a joint science ...