10/07/2015 - Detecting how changes in one spot on Earth – in temperature, rain, wind – are linked to changes in another, far away area is key to assessing ...

09/28/2015 - Potsdam´s climate science moves into a new, energetically highly innovative research building. The modern facility with a ground plan shaped like ...

09/17/2015 - The window of opportunity for a global fossil fuel phase out is closing faster than expected. In particular poor but fast-growing developing ...

09/11/2015 - Burning all of the world’s available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study to be ...

"Burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the (Antarctic) ice sheet,", resumes a new PIK-study by an international ...

"To be blunt: If we burn it all, we melt it all," resumes PIK-scientist Ricarda Winkelmann, who led an international research team that explored the ...

09/11/2015 - The growing world population, climate change, rapid urbanisation, and the international interdependence of economies are all increasing our ...

09/10/2015 - What´s in store at the next climate conference, COP21, later this year? This week, staff of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...