News (2024)

11 April 2024|Event

On site EGU 2024

The picture shows the EGU-Booth from 2023. People and experts are talking with each other.

Photo: CLICCS/UHH

From 14 to 19 April 2024, scientists from CLICCS and CEN are presenting their research in Vienna, at the annual assembly of the European Geosciences...

4 April 2024|Research

Winter Expedition to Greenland Launched

View over the snow-covered landscape in the "Blæsedalen" valley, the study site on Disko Island, West Greenland

Photo: Lars Kutzbach

Experts from the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) and the joint project MOMENT are working together to explore...

25 March 2024|CLICCS News

First global study of coastal seas as carbon dioxide reservoirs possible

Photo: Hereon/M.Mathis

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now...

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21 March 2024|Transfer

Art and climate research: a collaboration with potential

Videoperformance zu verschiedenen Zukunkftsszenarien des arktischen Permafrost.Dabei stehen drei Tänzerinen im Mittelpunkt. Das Bild ist in grautönen gehalten.

Photo: Design by Nielsen/Schurr, Image material: Ketan Rajput/Unsplash

The transfer project "Portraits of Climate" brings art and science together. In five teams, the artists exchange ideas with one or more researchers...

7 March 2024|Research

Ecosystem loss: Subsequent costs far higher than expected

Photo: UHH/R.Hansen

Governments the world over are looking for novel approaches to evaluating ecosystem benefits and value. This is to illustrate the impacts of...

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6 March 2024|International

New UNESCO Chair in Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Göttling

UNESCO and Universität Hamburg have now created a UNESCO Chair “Societal Climate Change Research and Resilience”, headed by Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter...

6 March 2024|Research

“Grasping climate change takes a personal experience”

Photo: Beate Ratter

For the past several years, geographer Prof. Beate Ratter has been investigating adaptation measures on small islands that are especially endangered...

23 February 2024|Research

How to Best Motivate Personal Climate Action

Eine Frau mit lockigen Haaren und einer Wollmütze sitzt auf einem Berggipfel und schreibt einen Brief. Im Hitergrund sieht man ein Gebirge.

Photo: Unsplash/Tyler Nix

Setting a good example, stirring fear, advocating scientific facts, or imparting self-efficacy—what is the best way to encourage people to take...

13 February 2024|Research

Frequent marine heatwaves in the Arctic Ocean will be the norm

The figure shows the most powerful heatwave in the Arctic Ocean to date in 2020, which continued for 103 days. The cumulative heat intensity sums up the daily anomalies in water temperature recorded over the duration of the heat wave in degrees Celsi

Photo: UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian

Marine heatwaves will become a regular occurrence in the Arctic in the near future and are a product of higher anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions...

30 January 2024|Research

Green resilience: Fighting climate risks with plants and trees

Beach 41st Community Garden, Queens, New York City, was built in 2015 on the Rockaway Peninsula, which was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, with the goal of increasing the community's resilience to future natural disasters.

Photo: Delf Rothe

How do plants and trees contribute to public security in times of multiple crises? In the face of the growing climate crisis and other complex risks...