A substantial loss of plant diversity could mean that grasslands worldwide, including meadows and pastures, would absorb ...

Past emissions have already committed the planet to higher temperatures, sea levels and other long-term impacts, with new ...

ERSU and RD2 at CBC2026 in Leipzig, on farmer decisions, canopy heat stress and tipping in the living biosphere.

The Ariadne research project has provided important guidance for the energy transition in Germany since its inceptions in mid-2019, and will leave well-founded recommendations for its further ...

2017/01/13 - 66 million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind’s reign on Earth. Climate scientists now reconstructed ...

SUNRISE brings together 19 academic and non-academic partners from three continents with the scope of advancing the knowledge and practices of attribution science, impact assessment and ...

Highlights Talk on tipping risks at the Climate Coffee series (see recording) Co-author of the NCC article: Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming (see PIK's press ...

06.12.2023 - Tipping points pose some of the biggest risks to our planet’s life-support systems and the stability of our societies. In an unprecedented effort by the scientific community, researchers ...

Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Visting Scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Guest Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ...

Sabine Mathesius is a postdoctoral researcher at PIK, working on various ocean topics in the Planetary Boundary Science project. She obtained a doctoral degree in Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR ...

Christoph is Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland's Center for Global Sustainability (CGS), and guest researcher at PIK. From 2019-April 2023, he led the international climate ...

Felicitas Beier works on the implementation of spatially-explicit irrigation potentials in the land-use modeling framework MAgPIE (https://github.com/magpiemodel ...