Climate change is driving more frequent and intense heavy rainfall, increasing pluvial flooding hazards in densely built cities. Researchers at TUHH and Universität Hamburg have developed a high-resolution framework for assessing pluvial flood risk at the building level, following the IPCC risk concept that defines risk as...

On Tuesday, 15 September, the return of the final participants marked the end of this year’s “Soil Science Field Course Greenland” of University of Hamburg. Twelve Master’s students from the Geosciences and Integrated Climate System Sciences programmes of the Department of Earth System Sciences spent around two weeks in...

On 10 September 2026, the Scientific Advisory Board of the project "Nuclear Justice and Gender in the Sea of Islands" came together for the second time. Members joined from a range of different regions and across multiple time zones.

At the centre of the meeting was a policy paper, which we presented for discussion. The...

On three occasions in spring and summer (May, July, August), the work group "soils in the climate system" (AG Kutzbach) conducted diurnal chamber measurement campaigns. As part of the research and development project “Measurement of Climate-Damaging Gases” (EkG) concluded with Deutsche Einheit Fernstraßenplanungs- und -bau...

At the annual conference of the Royal Geographic Society in London from September 1-4, entitled "Geographies of inequalities: toward just places", Janina is involved in two capacities:

She organizes the session "Entanglements of Environmental (In)Justices in the Sea of Islands" together with Desmond Doulatram from the...

For the 300 m-tall NDR broadcasting mast in Hamburg-Billwerder, which is now 66 years old, the end is approaching. As a result, we also have to clear the “Hamburg Weather Mast” and dismantle our instruments and sensors. Work began today at a height of 175 m – where the boom has, for the first time in decades, been...