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Antarctica could raise sea level faster than previously thought
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8/14/2014 - Ice discharge from Antarctica could contribute up to 37 centimeters to the global sea level rise within this century, a new study shows. For the ...
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Hotspots of climate change impacts in Africa: making sense of uncertainties
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05/06/2014 - Overlapping impacts of climate change such as drought or flooding, declining crop yields or ecosystem damages create hotspots of risk in specific ...
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Uncorking East Antarctica yields unstoppable sea-level rise
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05/05/2014 - The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica’s shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in ...
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“Global problems require globally coordinated science”: First German Future Earth Summit
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01/27/2014 - The ten-year research programme “Future Earth”, an initiative of leading international scientific organizations bringing together existing ...
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Climate change puts forty percent more people at risk of absolute water scarcity: study
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12/16/2013 - Water scarcity impacts people’s lives in many countries already today. Future population growth will increase the demand for freshwater even ...
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Networks in the climate system: novel approach by young scientist awarded
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12/10/2013 - For his pioneering research on complex networks in our climate system a young scientist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) ...
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LOOPS-3 2017
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LOOPS.3 2017 – Transformative change and social-ecological resilience in the World-Earth system: modeling, concepts and data
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copan – Coevolution of human-environment systems in the Anthropocene
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A collaboration of PIK's Research Departments 1 and 4, dealing with the coevolution of natural and socio-economic subsystems of the Earth system and its ...
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COPAN
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A joint flagship project of PIK's Research Domains "Earth System Analysis" and "Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods", founded in 2013, dealing with the mid- ...
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Expert assessment: Sea-level rise could exceed one meter in this century
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11/22/2013 - Sea-level rise in this century is likely to be 70-120 centimeters by 2100 if greenhouse-gas emissions are not mitigated, a broad assessment of the ...
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