28.08.2025 - Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf ...

21.08.2025 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now appointed 664 experts from 111 countries to produce the “Seventh Assessment Report” ...

18.08.2025 - Humans adapt to floods through private measures, early warning systems, emergency preparedness and other solutions. A new attribution study by the ...

15.08.2025 – A new study maps the planetary boundary of “functional biosphere integrity” in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds that 60 percent of ...

11.08.2025 – Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third (25-38 percent) since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes, compared to a world ...

06. 08. 2025 - In response to feedback from other scientists, the authors of the paper “The economic commitment of climate change” at the Potsdam Institute for ...

04.08.2025– Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have developed a new data set of the Earth’s atmospheric rivers – PIK ...

30.07.2025 - Measures to fight global heating justify additional government debt – to the extent that they prevent carbon emissions and the resulting climate ...

30.07.2025 - In the wake of newly agreed climate finance targets in Baku at COP29, climate economists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...

24.07.2025 - Instead of supporting recovery, food served in hospitals and nursing homes may actually undermine patients’ and residents’ health – and the ...