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UHH-CEN-Y.Milker

18 June 2019|Forschung

Salt marshes along the German North Sea coast are a world of their own: these “salty meadows” form an important transitional zone between the ocean and the land, which helps to protect the hinterland from major storm surges. But what will happen if the sea level rises? Doctoral candidate Dorothea Bunzel is investigating...

BMBF/Hans-Joachim Rickel

14 June 2019|Studium und Lehre

Climate protection: Hamburg-based researchers to advise the federal government

Federal Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze and Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek recently initiated a scientific platform for climate protection in Berlin. A social scientist and management expert from Universität Hamburg were among those appointed to the steering committee: Prof. Anita...

Oxfam

13 June 2019|Forschung

Climate change increases the risk of armed conflicts

Our climate can influence the risk of armed conflicts. Although to date, other factors have had a significantly larger effect, international researchers expect the additional conflict risk posed by climate change to increase several fold in the future.

This is the verdict of a new study released in the journal Nature...

Außenminister Heiko Maas besucht das Exzellenzcluster für Klimaforschung der Universität Hamburg.

UHH/Ohme

21 May 2019|CEN News

Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas catches up on the latest climate research in Hamburg

Expertise like that produced at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)” is essential in order to convince skeptics at the international political level of the reality of climate change, underscored Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas during his visit.

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30 April 2019|Forschung

How climate change is turning enemies into partners

In the region surrounding the River Jordan, the conditions are arid – a fact that is already a problem for the countries there, and one that climate change will only make worse. When two countries share the same river, such crises can often only be resolved by finding cross-border solutions. But what do you do when your...

UHH/CEN/K.Grannis

11 April 2019|Studium und Lehre

Applying in droves: Young people want to become climate professionals

Great news from the CEN’s SICSS Graduate School: compared to the previous year, the number of applications for the Master’s degree program “Integrated Climate System Sciences” has risen by 25 percent. The program is internationally advertised, and all courses are held in English, two aspects that have paid off: “We...