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Which societal inequalities are resulting from the climate crisis? What should be the goal of eco-social transformation? In what way do climate...

The FNK is pleased to announce that Jördis Strack has started her PhD in the joint project "Map4Risk" between the University of Hamburg (UHH) and the...

Prof. Jana Sillmann and Dr. Benjamin Blanz travelled to Split, Croatia, to teach at the Summer Institute in Systemic Risks, Cascades and Tipping...

As part of the “Hamburger Horizonte” event series on water, the Ligeti Center hosted a special event called “Rain on the horizon” on October 16, 2025...

The Climate Extremes Group of FNK organized an international conference and a workshop from September 22nd to 24th 2025 in Hamburg on the topic of...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has selected 664 experts from around the world to participate as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead...

Crossing an increasing number of planetary boundaries, rising geo-political tensions, growing inequality, and new technologies, result in the fact...

Around the world, harvests are at risk: As global warming worsens, there is a growing risk of several breadbaskets – key agricultural regions – being...

The MYRIAD_EU project and the Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Risks at the University of Hamburg conducted a workshop to initiate a new...

As part of the public lecture series on the climate crisis "Reclaiming Tomorrow" at the University of Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann gave a lecture...

Even if the global community were to stop emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, today’s heat records in Europe would continue for centuries – and could...

From May 12-16 2025 the first global km-scale hackathon organised by the World Meteorological Organization's Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity took...

The study “Towards a socio-ecological system understanding of urban flood risk and barriers to climate change adaptation using causal loop diagrams”...

Vidur Mithal, a PhD candidate in the Climate Extremes group at FNK and the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling...

The EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2025 took place from 27 April to 2 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria, and online. It's the largest...

Josipa Županić started her PhD at the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), a joint program by the Max...

As a final event of the activities of the DKN Working group RiskTransScens, Jana Sillmann and Hermann Held, together with Sabine Fuss (PIK) and...

Globally, weather and climate extremes are becoming more frequent, intense and widespread, and climatic impact-drivers, such as floods, heatwaves, and...