02/21/2022 - Human-made climate change has arrived at centre-stage in the security community. As the 2022 Munich Security Report shows, attendants at this ...

02/18/2022 - Today, the Science Platform on Climate Protection' delivered its first annual report to the German government. Sabine Schlacke, Director of the ...

01/12/2022 - Economic growth goes down when the number of wet days and days with extreme rainfall go up, a team of Potsdam scientists finds. Rich countries are ...

A new episode of the podcast "Sustain Ability. The Potsdam Dialogues" is out. From cauliflower to climate change: Chef Megha Kohli from New Delhi, India, and ...

12/07/2021 - The Alliance of Science Organisations has criticised the BILD newspaper for the way it reports on individual researchers who are contributing ...

12/03/2021 - To highlight the inclusion of people with disabilities, the research institutions on Potsdam's Telegrafenberg have jointly hoisted a purple flag ...

12/03/2021 - The Director Emeritus of the Potsdam Institute, Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber, was honoured, among other things, for his enormous influence on ...

12/02/2021 - PIK scientist Björn Sörgel has received the 2021 Postdoc Award of the State of Brandenburg in the category Humanities and Social Sciences. The ...

11/29/2021 - A new international study shows how near-term mitigation can help to prevent an overshoot in global temperatures – thereby reducing climate risks ...

11/16/2021 - For the fourth year in a row, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are among the top 1 percent of the most ...