11/28/2011 - Today Stiftung Mercator and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) announced the foundation of a joint institute for research and ...

11/24/2011 – At the moment, hardly anyone expects a breakthrough of the climate summit in Durban. Even before the negotiators from around the world come ...

11/14/2011 - With tens of billions some states subsidize fossil fuels like oil. This was dubbed “an absurdity of our economic system” by Achim Steiner, Head of ...

11/04/2011 - The Volvo Environment Prize was awarded to the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, in ...

10/26/2011 - How can climate types be categorized to comprehend climate changes ore precisely? How can crops adapt to a changing climate? And where to find ...

10/26/2011 - What are the consequences of climate change for public health? The World Health Summit made this question, rather neglected in public debate, one ...

10/24/2011 - The Moscow heat wave last year was, with high probability, the result of climate change – contrary to what some have assumed. With a likelihood ...

10/05/2011 - Constructing buildings, power-plants, roads is what drives the substantial increase in China’s CO2 emission growth, a new study finds. Fast ...

10/04/2011 - „The most beautiful science campus of the continent“ is now even prettier: the small cupola of the former photographic refractor on ...