In only three years, Climate-KIC and its partners will invest around half a billion Euros in European climate innovation. Through this effort, science and business are working to turn research into…
Energy from biomass presents underappreciated risks, new research published in Nature Climate Change shows.
Climate research in Potsdam will get a new home. Adjacent to the historic main buildings of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) dating from the 19th century, a new energy-optimized…
Scientists of PIK and the Institute for Social and Development Studies (IGP), together with the organization for development cooperation Misereor and the Munich Re Foundation, point out options for…
The past decade has been one of unprecedented weather extremes. At least for extreme rainfall and heat waves the link with human-caused global warming is clear, the scientists show in a new analysis…
The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. Today, already 0.8 degrees global warming has been observed, which can cause substantial melting of…
After two years of negotiations and together with the Bolivian nature conservation organisation Asociación Armonia, Naturefund has finally been able to save 120,000 square metres in the highlands of…
