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09/22/2017 - To investigate teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events, twenty-five young scientists from all over the world have been ...

09/14/2017 - More than 150 city experts from all over the world will come together next week in Potsdam to discuss the future of our cities under climate ...

The Economist (UK) - Already in 2015, a study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) detected a clear upward trend in the ...

The Washington Post (USA) - A warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor. This was favouring extreme rainfall events "because they tend to occur with ...

28.08.2017 - Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions will fundamentally change electricity consumption patterns in Europe. A team of scientists ...

08/28/2017 - Tropical storm "Harvey" is causing severe flooding in Texas. Because many people are asking if there is a link to climate change, the Potsdam ...

06/28/2017 – Ricarda Winkelmann received the Karl-Scheel-Preis 2017, the most important prize of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (Physical Society of ...