Symposium explored the lasting consequences of warming overshoot, risks to water and coast systems, and how international research can inform local responses.Global climate findings carry practical implications for water management, coastal adaptation, and ecosystem protection. How can international research better inform those decisions, and how can regional experience help shape the research?...
From August 3 to 15, 2026, the 2026 International Summer School on “Complex Systems and Earth System Science” was held at Tsinghua University. The event brought together young scholars, graduate students and researchers from across the globe, including 47 international and 68 Chinese participants. Centered on frontier themes including complex systems theory, Earth system science, climate chan...
On July 12, Academician Chen Deliang, Dean of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS) at Tsinghua University, attended by invitation the cross-disciplinary salon "When Science Meets Art: The Science and Poetry of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms," held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The event was co-hosted by the Center for Public Communication and Education of the Ministry of...
Recently, Academician Deliang Chen, Xinghua Distinguished Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, has been appointed Chair of the International Prize Jury of the Volvo Environment Prize. This appointment marks an important recognition by the international academic community of his long-standing contributions to environmental and climate science, his promotion of international scientific coopera...
Recently, the Sub-forum themed "Collaborative Innovation for Climate Change and Health Adaptation", jointly hosted by the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University and The Lancet Countdown Asia Centre, was held during the 2026 Hong Kong Climate Week (HKCW 2026). The sub-forum, with a focus on the frontier challenges in the field of climate and health, brought together repre...
Recently, the international sustainability science program Future Earth announced its new leadership structure. Academician Chen Deliang, Xinghua Distinguished Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, has been elected Co-Chair of Future Earth. This marks a further elevation of the influence of Tsinghua scholars in internationally coordinated research on global climate change and sustainable deve...
On April 24, 2026, the annual academic conference and academic committee meeting of the Key Laboratory of Earth System Numerical Simulation of the Ministry of Education (hereinafter referred to as the Laboratory) convened in Beijing.Present at the event were academic committee members including Academicians Ding Yihui, Chen Dake, Huang Jianping, Qian Depei, Shen Xueshun and Chen Jingming, Resea...
On March 29, 2026, the South-South Cooperation Knowledge Sharing Symposium, co-organized by the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), the Department of Electronic Engineering, and the Center for Global Competence Development at Tsinghua University, was held on campus. Experts and scholars from a number of institutions and universities attended the event, including the Food and Agriculture ...