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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone
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24.09.2025 - A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 ...
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How climate policy can be made socially just and enforceable worldwide
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24.09.2025 – A model study now explores how carbon pricing with redistribution can help the energy transition and the climate worldwide, while increasing ...
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How measures to protect the environment and reduce the rich–poor divide interact
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01.09.2025 – Governments around the world are grappling with the challenges of environmental degradation and economic inequality. But until now, there has been ...
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Possible North Atlantic overturning circulation shutdown after 2100 in high-emission future
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28.08.2025 - Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf ...
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Seventh Assessment Report of the IPCC has nine Lead Authors from the Potsdam Institute
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21.08.2025 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now appointed 664 experts from 111 countries to produce the “Seventh Assessment Report” ...
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70 years of data show adaptation reducing Europe’s flood losses
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18.08.2025 - Humans adapt to floods through private measures, early warning systems, emergency preparedness and other solutions. A new attribution study by the ...
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60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state
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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 ...
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Tropical bird populations reduced by a third since 1980, compared to a world without climate change
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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 ...
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Nature study on economic damages from climate change revised
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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 ...
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