
New perspectives for travelers and regions: A risk index helps provide a better understanding of the consequences of climate change.

Andreas Schäfer initially wanted to design skyscrapers, but he ended up studying the forces that cause them to collapse. In the ARD podcast Science TeaTime, he explains what happens when nature meets society.
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The Roland Mall Foundation's 2026 Mall Environmental Prize in the "Doctoral Thesis" category will be awarded to former CEDIM doctoral student Dr. Sarah Quynh Giang Ho for her dissertation, "Fielding Floods for Farms and (Low) Flows: The Potential Benefits of Repurposing Small Flood Reservoirs for Drought Protection".

Thousands of hail trajectories in idealized supercell ensembles were simulated and show the roles of changing temperature, moisture, and updrafts.

A new analysis by Risklayer/CEDIM and the ME/CFS Research Foundation provides updated data on the prevalence and costs of long COVID and ME/CFS in Germany in 2025. Published in April 2026, the report covers the period from 2020 to 2025 and shows that both conditions continue to pose a significant societal burden.

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