… to railway traffic due to freezing rain, snowfall and snowdrifts. In 2018 and 2019, the summer heat caused a noticeable number of disruptions. A trend analysis is … in passenger and tonne-kilometres respectively) as recorded in the pre-crisis year 2019, make railway transport an important building block of Germany’s transport … frequently remedied before causing any disruptions to train operations. In 2018 and 2019, however, high temperatures were largely responsible for disruptions to the …

… branches, and their crowns become thinner. The prolonged drought in the 2018 and 2019 growing seasons caused widespread premature leaf drop. According to the most recent 2019 Forest Damage Report from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the … temperatures in Germany have already risen more than the global average, and by 2019 they had already risen by 1.6 degrees Celsius. By 2050, climate model …