News from the Institute

Focus: The big melt | Marie-Luise Kapsch, Clemens Schannwell

Climate change is melting the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and causing sea levels to rise. This could be a disaster for island states and…

Risky Cooling | Dr Ulrike Niemeier

Volcanoes are sources of ideas. When they erupt, they emit large amounts of sulfur dioxide, cooling the climate.

POST FROM: Barbados, Caribbean | Theresa Lang

Theresa Lang from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology spent around two weeks on the Caribbean island of Barbados for the cloud research project…