Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol and Benjamin Steininger present a research initiative of the Max Planck Society on socio-technical aspects of energy transformation. more

Thorsten Mauritsen from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has worked out how much time we have left to reach the Paris climate goal more

The star that sustains life on Earth has no influence on the current global temperature increase more

The impact of the Cold War on geophysics and oceanography lies at the centre of Lino Camprubí's research. The Spanish postdoc, who has been researching in Berlin for three years, is currently investigating how submarine surveillance advanced marine acoustics. In an interview, he reports on what marine biologists have learned from this data. more

Sea level – the geographical reference point and indicator of climate change – is a surprisingly variable parameter more

Plastics are accumulating in increasingly large quantities in the oceans but are difficult to replace due to the advantages they offer more

Can microorganisms help combat the vast amounts of plastic being disposed of in the sea? more

A new report summarizes how climate change is affecting the water cycle in Germany more