Using 13 years of Eddy Covariance CO2 flux measurements at a temperate peatland, we predict that future climate warming will increase non-growing season net ecosystem exchanges of CO2, with greater CO2 emissions resulting from increases in radiative forcing.

The emergence of deserts in Arabia had a decisive impact on the evolution and migratory movements of mammals including our human ancestors. This is one of our conclusions after studying a 10-million-year climate history of Arabia, respectively Mesopotamia.

In many coastal seas nutrient pollution caused severe oxygen depletion. We have therefore carried out future projections of one of them, the Baltic Sea, and examined the questions of when and where the first signs of improvement will emerge if the anthropogenic nutrient loads are further reduced.