News (2025)23 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...4 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 newsroom11 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...
