PhD student Luisa Gensch, funded by the Übersee-Club e.V, was invited on 26 March 2026 to speak about her dissertation project. She started the event of the Übersee-Club e.V., after which the keynote speaker, Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, gave his talk. Her presentation was appreciated by Cramer, who said that he was grateful...

How can environmental processes in frozen lakes be made visible – and what role do they play in the global climate? These questions were at the core of the research campaign “DYNALake”, led by the University of Helsinki. During the winter of 2024/2025, researchers investigated the dynamics of lake ice and its connection to...

Maria Ansari, Annette Eschenbach, and Joscha N. Becker from Soil Science at the University of Hamburg, together with colleagues from the University of Tübingen, Hochschule Geisenheim University, and the Ithaka Institute published their study  „Biochar dominated the combined effect of silicate rock powder and biochar...

The DFG (German Research Foundation) appointed Hermann Held as member of the DKN (German Committee Future Earth) for the period 2026-2028. The DKN is an independent scientific advisory body of the DFG and national contact point and platform for developments and activities within the international research program for global...

An article recently published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society summarizes the key themes and outcomes of the WCRP EPESC-LEADER Joint Science Meeting held in Busan, South Korea, in July 2025. Experts from two World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) initiatives, the Lighthouse Activity on Explaining and...