News (2025)21 May 2025|ResearchBetter harvests despite climate change – what’s holding farmers backPhoto: UHH/CLICCS/K. JantkeWhat can farmers in Namibia do to combat climate change? For one thing, they can grow cowpeas – as a CLICCS research project has already shown in...20 May 2025|InternationalScience, dialogue, and a strong research communityPhoto: UHH/CLICCSThis year’s European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly once again brought together geoscientists from around the world in Vienna – and CLICCS...19 May 2025|ResearchSnapshot SeychellesPhoto: Beate RatterIn March 2025, Beate Ratter sent us pictures and impressions of her research trip to the Seychelles, which we present here. The professor of...6 May 2025|Studies and teachingSuccess at UHH’s new teaching award: “Researching and Shaping Climate Futures” shortlistedPhoto: Foto: UHH/GöttlingLecturers from the Master’s class “Researching and Shaping Climate Futures” were finalists for the University of Hamburg’s newly introduced teaching...Contribution from the news channel SICSS News23 April 2025|ResearchNew study on tipping points offers hope while warning against inactionPhoto: Ngampol/Adobe StockThe risk of climatic tipping points like thawing permafrost and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest triggering each other in a chain reaction is...17 April 2025|ResearchHow much will the coal phase-out actually help the climate?Photo: : Christian Schwier/Adobe StockGermany is committed to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2038, but the actual climate effect of this policy is debated. A new study from the...24 March 2025|CLICCS NewsStudiengang „Integrated Climate System Sciences“ gewinnt MINTchallengePhoto: UHHDer Studiengang „Integrated Climate System Sciences (ICSS)“ wurde als eines der fünf Gewinnerprojekte der „MINTchallenge plus“ ausgezeichnet. Der...24 March 2025|EventICSS program receives award for innovative conceptPhoto: StifterverbandEnergy transition, climate change, food security - in order to solve current and future problems, we need people who can think and work in an...Contribution from the news channel SICSS News17 March 2025|ResearchForschungsprojekt: Wie kann Klimaschutz nachhaltig finanziert werden?Photo: pexels/Akil MazumderIn einem neuen Projekt wird ein Forschungsteam der Universität Hamburg im Dialog mit der Finanzwirtschaft innovative Finanzierungs- und...Contribution from the university's newsroom4 March 2025|ResearchClimate expertise can make a difference – in varying dosesPhoto: M. Piwnicki / unsplashFederal climate protection measures aren’t currently sufficient to achieve our climate targets. Voluntary climate protection can help reduce CO2...27 February 2025|ResearchDoing nothing now will cost us more laterPhoto: Michael WaibelThe Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 shows how climate change adaptation can ultimately succeed: through meticulously thought-through measures...25 February 2025|ResearchWeaker ocean circulation could cost trillionsPhoto: CEN Climate Visualization LaboratoryA major motor for the global climate is beginning to falter: a massive system of ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation...Contribution from the university's newsroom17 February 2025|CLICCS NewsDa war doch was: CLICCS-Forschende stellen Klima-Mythen richtigPhoto: UHHMigration, Schuldenbremse, Außenpolitik: Im Wahlkampf gehen die Debatten hoch her – nur über das Klima spricht fast keiner. Ob Duell oder Quadrell...11 February 2025|ResearchTides reduce marine CO2 uptakePhoto: NASA/GSFCThe ocean absorbs massive amounts of CO₂ from the atmosphere, helping to slow climate change. Tides have a major impact on the mixing, distribution...7 February 2025|ResearchBy 2100: An Arctic we’ll hardly recognizePhoto: UniHH/CEN/T.WasilewskiThe Arctic will change dramatically. If all nations meet the climate targets they’ve agreed to, the global mean temperature will rise by 2.7 degrees...Previous articles