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Desperate times call for desperate measures: in an effort to save the West Antarctic ice sheet from collapse and prevent potentially catastrophic sea level rise, a group of scientists want to pump ocean water...
The Atlantic overturning – one of Earth’s most important heat transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water southwards – is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000 years. Sea...
While less new coal-fired power plants are now being built in China and India, the planned expansion in the use of coal in fast-growing emerging economies, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Vietnam, will in...
Cities can slash their greenhouse gas emissions far beyond their urban borders by taking measures to reduce their housing and transport emissions, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact...
Growing plants to store carbon from the atmosphere will not offset unmitigated emissions from fossil fuel burning, a new study shows. At best it could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts....
Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have concluded that economic growth will not be able to counterbalance the rising costs of climate change damages such as hurricanes. More than 50 per...
A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows that reducing food waste could help mitigate climate change. Agriculture accounts for around 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Around...
On a school field trip to Potsdam’s Telegraph Hill, Alice runs after a white rabbit – and falls into a hole, sliding down the ventilation shaft of a climate research institute’s supercomputer. From here...
Pricing CO2 could help to end the deadlock of international climate policy, reports Mareike Schodder of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Finance ministers around the world would have reason enough to...
The comparatively small Amundsen Basin plays a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of the huge, so-called eternal ice of the West Antarctic ice sheet. If destabilised, the entire West Antarctica ice masses could...
Major economies have to act as forerunners when it comes to limiting climate change. If the US or EU were to double their emissions reductions targets, then the world might still be able to...
Ocean warming caused by climate change is causing the Antarctic Filchner-Ronne shelf to melt. The more ice that melts, the more it flows into the ocean and the more it contributes to global sea-level...
Extreme weather events such as heat waves and droughts but also longer cold periods will occur more frequently in the future, scientists warned at a conference in Paris. They want world leaders at the...
A new study shows it is feasible to limit future global temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, which experts regard as a safer goal than the currently agreed international aim...
Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have published a study showing that global warming could have a catastrophic effect on parts of East Antarctica and lead to an unstoppable sea-level...
