- Report shows cost-efficient pathways to climate neutrality 2024 in Germany https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/ariadne-report-shows-cost-efficient-pathways-to-climate-neutrality-2024-in-germany 3 comments climate
- Green growth: 30 percent of regions worldwide achieve economic growth while reducing carbon emissions. North America and Asia have seen more fluctuating decoupling patterns over the decades, but there's been an improvement trend in the last decade https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/green-growth-30-percent-of-regions-worldwide-achieve-economic-growth-while-reducing-carbon-emissions 8 comments science
- Overview article - Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? And the consequences if it does. (Video presentation in comments) https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/overview-article-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-as-a-tipping-point 6 comments environment
- Climate change could become the most important driver of biodiversity loss by mid-century https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/climate-change-could-become-the-most-important-driver-of-biodiversity-loss-by-mid-century 16 comments environment
- Climate change could become the most important driver of biodiversity loss by mid-century https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/climate-change-could-become-the-most-important-driver-of-biodiversity-loss-by-mid-century 46 comments science
- Shifting Climate Zones: Sahel might get 50 % more rain by 2040 https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/shifting-climate-zones-sahel-might-get-50-more-rain-by-2040#:~:text=New%20computer%20simulations%20show%20a,future%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions%20develop 5 comments climate
- Due to global warming, flood-like water outbursts from ice-dammed glacial lakes worldwide happen earlier in the year and originate from higher areas. At the same time, however, these outbursts are also becoming smaller. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/earlier-higher-smaller-climate-change-alters-glacial-lake-outburst-floods 3 comments science
- Amazon Heat Drives Tibet Temperatures: Research Confirms Inter-Linked Earth System Tipping Elements Over Long Distances; Changes in South American Ecosystem Can Trigger Changes in Himalayas https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/amazon-heat-drives-tibet-temperatures-climate-tipping-elements-connected-half-around-the-globe 9 comments science
- Overshooting climate targets could significantly increase risk for tipping cascades https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/overshooting-climate-targets-could-significantly-increase-risk-for-tipping-cascades 129 comments science
- Temporarily overshooting the climate targets of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius could increase the tipping risk of several Earth system elements by more than 70 percent compared to keeping global warming in line with the United Nations Paris Agreement range https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/overshooting-climate-targets-could-significantly-increase-risk-for-tipping-cascades 8 comments climate
- Extreme temperatures fuel online hate speech https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/extreme-temperatures-fuel-online-hate-speech 3 comments technology
- Fungi-based meat alternatives could help save Earth’s forests, new study finds https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/fungi-based-meat-alternatives-to-help-save-earth2019s-forests 10 comments science
- China’s crops at risk: Climate change boosts spread of crop pests and diseases. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/china2019s-crops-at-risk-climate-change-boosts-spread-of-crop-pests-and-diseases 7 comments science
- Major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching critical threshold https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/major-atlantic-ocean-current-system-might-be-approaching-critical-threshold 78 comments science
- Major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching critical threshold — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/major-atlantic-ocean-current-system-might-be-approaching-critical-threshold 6 comments climate
- Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points. The currents are already at their slowest point in at least 1,600 years, but the new analysis shows they may be nearing a shutdown. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/major-atlantic-ocean-current-system-might-be-approaching-critical-threshold 36 comments science
- Staying away from those EV startups that are targeting Hydrogen Fuel Cell plays, or Fool Cells (incl. Nikola and Advent Technologies) https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/hydrogen-instead-of-electrification-potentials-and-risks-for-climate-targets 35 comments stocks
- Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess Says Electric Batteries Are Better than Hydrogen Cars (VOW, VWAGY) https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/hydrogen-instead-of-electrification-potentials-and-risks-for-climate-targets 73 comments stocks
- Never before in over 1000 years has the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) been as weak as in the last decades. Study finds consistent evidence that its slowdown in the 20th century is unprecedented in the past millennium and is likely linked to human-caused climate change. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/gulf-stream-system-at-its-weakest-in-over-a-millennium 63 comments science
- At 2°C of warming, melting and the accelerated ice flow into the ocean will, eventually, entail 2.5m of global sea level rise just from Antarctica alone. At 4°C, it will be 6.5m and at 6°C almost 12m... "We're looking at removing nations from the map, it doesn't get much more serious than that." https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/stability-check-on-antarctica-reveals-high-risk-for-long-term-sea-level-rise 73 comments science
- Sea level rise due to ice loss in Antarctica could become a major risk for coastal protection even in the near term, scientists say. Within this century already, due to Antarctica alone global sea level might rise up to three times as much as it did in the last century. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/the-antarctica-factor-model-uncertainties-reveal-upcoming-sea-level-risk 3 comments science
- Feeding the world without wrecking the planet is possible https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/feeding-the-world-without-wrecking-the-planet-is-possible 6 comments climate
- Feeding the world without wrecking the planet is possible https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/feeding-the-world-without-wrecking-the-planet-is-possible 3 comments energy
- Replacing cement and steel in urban construction by wood can have double benefits for climate stabilization. First, it can avoid greenhouse gas emissions from cement and steel production. Second, it can turn buildings into a carbon sink as they store the CO2 taken up from the air by trees. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/buildings-can-become-a-global-co2-sink-if-made-out-of-wood-instead-of-cement-and-steel 14 comments science
- Scientists suggests a comprehensive solution package for feeding 10 billion people within our planet’s environmental boundaries. Supplying a sufficient and healthy diet for every person whilst keeping our biosphere largely intact will require no less than a technological and socio-cultural U-turn https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/feeding-the-world-without-wrecking-the-planet-is-possible 1230 comments science
- Scientists consider plan to pump millions of gallons of seawater to a system of snow cannons installed across West Antarctica in order to stabilize the ice sheet. Nearly a quarter of its ice is unstable, and it might eventually collapse even if global warming is controlled. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/sea-level-rise-west-antarctic-ice-collapse-may-be-prevented-by-snowing-ocean-water-onto-it-1 6 comments science
- More CO₂ in the atmosphere today than ever before in 3 million years https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/more-co2-than-ever-before-in-3-million-years-shows-unprecedented-computer-simulation 38 comments science
- Roughly 1/3 of Earth's arable land is used to grow livestock feed crops. In the Amazon, livestock feed crop cultivation is driving deforestation. Scientists want to limit the environmental impacts of livestock feed crop cultivation. Study suggests nutritional livestock feed can be grown in the lab https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/spacefood-for-cows-industrial-microbes-could-feed-cattle-pigs-and-chicken-with-less-damage-to-the-environment 18 comments science
- A new study of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene suggests the ice sheet is unlikely to reverse its accelerating retreat as it has in the past unless greenhouse-gas emissions are reduced rapidly and drastically. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/what-saved-the-west-antarctic-ice-sheet-10-000-years-ago-will-not-save-it-today 9 comments science
- China floods to hit US economy - Intensifying river floods could lead to regional production losses worldwide caused by global warming. This might not only hamper local economies around the globe – the effects might also propagate through the global network of trade and supply chains https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/china-floods-to-hit-us-economy-climate-effects-through-trade-chains?set_language=en 7 comments science
- Winter cold extremes linked to high-altitude polar vortex weakening - A new study finds that these weak states have become more persistent over past four decades and can be linked to cold winters in Russia and Europe, supporting that a changing Arctic impacts weather across the Northern Hemisphere. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/winter-cold-extremes-linked-to-high-altitude-polar-vortex-weakening 19 comments science
- From dry to wet: Rainfall might abruptly increase in Africa’s Sahel: Climate change could turn one of Africa's driest regions into a very wet one by suddenly switching on a Monsoon circulation https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/from-dry-to-wet-rainfall-might-abruptly-increase-in-africa2019s-sahel 114 comments science
- Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions - Growing plants and then storing the CO2 they have taken up from the atmosphere is no viable option to counteract unmitigated emissions from fossil fuel burning, a new study shows. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/climate-stabilization-planting-trees-cannot-replace-cutting-co2-emissions 8 comments science
- New computer models predict U.S. crop harvests will be adversely affected by climate change. Scientists found for each additional day with temperatures above 86 degrees Fahrenheit, maize and soybean yields are reduced by 5 percent. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/harvests-in-the-us-to-suffer-from-climate-change 9 comments science
- How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs - Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a large asteroid and blocking the sunlight for several years, had a profound influence on life on Earth. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/how-the-darkness-and-the-cold-killed-the-dinosaurs 35 comments science
- The Paris target of limiting global temperature increase to well below 2°C, aspiring to keep the warming even at 1.5°C, offers the chance to avoid some of the greatest climate risks - the tipping of critical Earth system elements, new study illustrates https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/controlled-implosion-of-fossil-industries-and-explosive-renewables-development-can-deliver-on-paris 9 comments science
- Study confirms that during the past millennia, sea-level has never risen nearly as fast as during the last century. Sea-levels worldwide will likely rise by 50 to 130 cm by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced rapidly. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/sea-level-rise-past-and-future-robust-estimates-for-coastal-planners 11 comments science
- Record warm years almost certainly due to human-made climate change https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/record-warm-years-almost-certainly-due-to-human-made-climate-change 7 comments science
- Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five, with much worse to come. http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/monatliche-hitzerekorde-haben-sich-durch-die-erderwaermung-verfuenffacht 4 comments science
- Catastrophic Climate Change: The West Antarctic ice sheet is a potential tipping element of the climate system that might have partially tipped already http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/kipp-elemente-im-klimasystem-forscher-verfeinern-ihre-einschaetzung 48 comments science