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The reappearance of Budapest's “Rock of Starvation” is a visible sign of a drought months in the making. IIASA researchers have traced its progression from missing rainfall and parched soils to exceptionally low flows across the Danube basin.

IIASA will contribute to the upcoming 12th Joint Session of the EMEP Steering Body and the Working Group on Effects in Geneva in its role as host of the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM).

A new study by an international team of researchers connects drought across the world’s wheat-growing regions with global markets and suggests that 3°C of warming could triple average wheat prices relative to 2010.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.

The International Symposium on Climate-Driven Geohazards: Engineering, Science and Society (GEOS 2026) brings together international research communities to explore how climate change is reshaping natural hazards and to strengthen collaboration across engineering, science, and society. The symposium will address the increasing frequency, intensity, and unpredictability of landslides, floods, debris flows, and other geohazards, with a focus on enhancing resilience against natural hazard-induced disasters.

How can private gardens help support biodiversity in Austria? The new IIASA citizen science project G/ArtenLeben brings science and gardening practice together. At three G/ArtenCafés in Lower Austria, hobby gardeners are invited to contribute their knowledge and experience to research and work alongside scientists to explore how gardening can help biodiversity thrive.

Taking place 24–25 November 2026 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the conference is co-hosted by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Tsinghua University, and will bring together leading researchers, policymakers, innovators, and communicators to advance the global dialogue on overshoot pathways and responses.

This installment of the Tipping points webinar series will explore how climate models can help scientists understand climate tipping points and the risks of abrupt, potentially hard-to-reverse changes in the Earth system, while highlighting recent modeling insights, scientific challenges, and what models can and cannot tell us about tipping point risks.

IIASA and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will convene a side event at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to officially launch a new report, Restoring Land, Securing Futures: Carbon Farming in Greater Central Asia, and discuss pathways for translating its findings into policy, investment, and action.

In a new paper, researchers explain how EU battery regulations can help lay the groundwork for a widely shared evidentiary system for global sustainability governance.

As climate impacts such as heatwaves, floods, and fires are intensifying worldwide, there is an urgent demand for information on how to respond. IIASA researchers and partners have developed a new tool that meets that need, integrating climate drivers, risks, and adaptation options in one framework grounded in IPCC science. It turns authoritative global climate assessments into guidance practitioners can use.

IIASA Deputy Director General Karen Lips and Senior Research Scholar Elina Brutschin will participate in the European Forum Alpbach 2026, contributing IIASA expertise to discussions on decision-making under uncertainty and integrated approaches to urban climate transformation.

At the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) 2026 conference in Québec City - whose theme, Living with Disturbance: Resilience in Boreal Forests, speaks directly to this challenge - IIASA will host the Fire&Ice workshop, introducing an integrated modeling framework that follows the full chain from fire behavior through emissions and air quality to population exposure and health.

IIASA Gender Equality and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi will represent the Institute at the 2nd Gender Equality, Diversity and Sustainability in Higher Education Conference, to explore interdisciplinary approaches to advancing gender equality, diversity, and sustainability across higher education.

IIASA researcher suggests a fundamentally different way for governments to plan for the future: using population as a common framework to connect health, education, food, jobs, housing, social protection, and climate risk. The approach integrates demographic data with sectoral planning to help governments make more coordinated, evidence-based decisions and improve population wellbeing.

In an interview with Austria's ORF, IIASA researcher Daniel Huppmann explained how the country's current heat extremes align with decades of climate science and what they mean for Austria's future.

As Austria experienced record-breaking temperatures on 4 August 2026, with more than 50 weather stations reporting all-time highs, IIASA Director General Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber joined Austrian public radio Ö1's Mittagsjournal to discuss what these extremes mean for the future, as well as why society must prepare for a much hotter climate.

What does integration mean for a refugee child? Manya Oriel Kagan reflects on the research behind her new book, Schooling Experiences of Refugee Children in Uganda: Rethinking Integration Policies. Drawing on months of research in schools and communities in Kampala, Uganda, she explores how children's everyday experiences reveal both the possibilities and the limits of one of the world's most progressive refugee policies.