Here you will find all reports older than two years. The years 1994 to 2009 are only available as PDF files.
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Traces of volcanic ash originating from icelandic volcanoes have been found in the sediments of Lake Tiefer See in the Nossentiner-Schwinzer Heide natural park in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This allows to more precisely date climate changes of the last…
[German only!] Prof. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg leitet am GFZ die Sektion Geochemie der Erdoberfläche und ist Koordinator des EU-geförderten Initial Training Networks IsoNose. Im Interview berichtet er über dieses Netzwerk, das einen…
22.12.2015: This year's El Niño phenomenon is extraordinarily strong. Not every Christmas Child receives a warm welcome: the fishermen of Peru have to fight with the climate phenomenon El Niño, where warm surface water of the Pacific displaces the…
18.12.2015: From 30 November to 3 December the Kick-off Meeting for the EU project IMPREX took place in De Bilt, Netherlands. IMPREX „IMproving PRedictions and management of hydrological EXtremes“ aims to improve society’s ability to anticipate and…
16.12.2015: Catastrophic medieval earthquakes in Nepal. Pokhara, the second largest town of Nepal, has been built on massive debris deposits, which are associated with strong medieval earthquakes. Three medieval earthquakes, in 1100, 1255, and 1344,…
11.12.2015: With a new geochemical method the quantification of sediment load in rivers is easier than before. An international team of researchers under the lead of Hella Wittmann-Oelze, GFZ section Earth Surface Geochemistry, introduces this…
10.12.2015: Prof. Joachim Wächter, Head of Centre for GeoInformationTechnology CeGIT at GFZ, is appointed an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Potsdam. Yesterday evening he received the certificate of the…
07.12.2015: Dr. Christopher Kyba, GFZ section Remote Sensing, studies light pollution (skyglow) – an environmental pollution that is to date largely unexplored. It describes the phenomenon that the night is getting brighter by artificial light.…
04.12.2015: Maximum observed earthquake magnitudes along continental transform faults. A team of scientists from the GFZ in collaboration with the University of Southern California has now presented a global evaluation of observed maximum earthquakes…
03.12.2015: Global warming is considered to trigger positive feedback mechanisms in the Arctic with a high potential for additional warming. How much methane, as a potent greenhouse gas, contributes to this additional warming potential is assessed in…