Climate Change Action Team
The North Atlantic Current is an important ocean current that circulates ocean water and is therefore responsible for ocean circulation. Paleoclimatic data show that the current can have two distinct states. The prevailing strong...
The 2020 global temperatures tied the record high from 2016, but the pandemic led to decreased greenhouse gas emissions in the past year. Although the global temperatures did not top the record high from...
To measure the progress of mankind to attain the temperature goal set in the Paris Agreement, a team of scientists quantified the human induced warming. By using climate model simulations the goal was to...
Warming events in the stratosphere over Siberia cause a shift of the polar vortex, pushing parts of it towards Europe and the other part towards North America. The freezing cold winds coming from the...
The water temperatures along the coastline of Israel are among the highest in the Mediterranean Sea. With rising sea temperatures the conditions go beyond the tolerance range of marine species in this area, leading...
As part of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) focus on sustainability in research funding, the DFG is planning to offset CO2 from business travel within the scope of DFG-funded research projects or DFG-commissioned reviewers....
Conservation strategies for earthen heritage sites need to be adapted to future climate conditions as the risk of environmentally-driven deterioration increases. Heritage sites in certain regions, such as dryland are especially affected by changed...
Greenhouse gas emissions from global food systems make up about 30% of the total emissions released worldwide. These emissions are mainly from food production and from land being cleared for this purpose. To meet...
Read the full article here. At this time of year, huge ice masses usually form off the coast of Siberia. The sea ice that forms here drifts over the pole in the course of...
With sustained winds of exceeding 215 kilometres per hour (195 mph) as it churns its way across Philippines on Sunday morning, Super Typhoon Goni now ranks as one of the most powerful tropical storms...