News 2022

22 August 2022
Heat, droughts, devastating forest fires and the rivers are at their lowest levels for a long time. Across Europe, the summer of 2022 follows on from the record summer of 2018. It is becoming increasingly clear with what effects climate change is progressing and influencing people's everyday lives. Reports of extreme events are increasing worldwide, and no region of the world is exempt from these consequences. What seems far away today can become reality on our own doorstep tomorrow! In their contribution, Monica Ionita and colleagues from the AWI put the summer 2022 hot spell into perspective. "The developments of the last few years and the high succession of extreme heat and dry years has brought nature to its limits, which we will feel for a long time to come. Unless we act now in a proper and consequent matter to reduce our emissions and make better choices for ourselves and our environment, what we have experienced in the past few years will become our new normal and our children will live in a very different and unfriendly climate than we are used to", Monica Ionita describes the current situation. Read more here ...