09/10/2024 - With continued high emissions, the mass loss of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and its impact on sea level rise could increase sharply after 2100, ...

08/28/2024 – A new UN brief outlines the current scientific understanding of sea-level rise on coastal flooding, with particular attention to major coastal ...

08/26/2024 - PhD student joined academical expedition in Alaska and British Columbia

08/23/2024 - An international research team has unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures from 41 countries across ...

08/01/2024 - Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping of critical Earth system elements, even if temperatures return to below 1.5 °C of global ...

07/15/2024 - Hermann Lotze-Campen from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has been appointed chair of the new Brandenburg Scientific ...

07/15/2024 – Johan Rockström receives the Virchow Prize 2024. The scientific Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) receives the ...

07/01/2023 - Wolfgang Lucht has been reappointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment (Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen, SRU). The Head of the ...

06/25/2024 - The prestigious Piers Sellers Prize was awarded to Leonie Wenz. As one of two winners, the deputy head of Complexity Science at the Potsdam ...