Centerfor Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)

How much carbon is released when permafrost soils thaw in the Arctic? Climate models cannot yet reliably predict this. An international research team has now investigated the role of plant roots. They release so-called exudates into the soil and thus accelerate the growth of microbes, which in turn accelerate the...

In 1997, Hamburg was the first German federal state to introduce a climate protection law – and was considered highly progressive at the time. But the act had since become outdated, and had been surpassed by the policies of various other states, as well as the federal government. Since February, Hamburg has had a new law...

Thunderstorms create cold regions that can lead to new thunderstorms Computer simulations can depict the effect, but what does it look like in nature? A research team at Universität Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is now hot on the trail of this real-world phenomenon. It has over 100 measuring stations...