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22.06.2016: The role of red pigmented snow algae in melting Arctic glaciers has been strongly underestimated, suggests a study published in NATURE Communications on June 22. White areas covered with snow and ice reflect sunlight; the effect is called…
22.06.2016: At the beginning of the main vacation time the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences would like to point all holidaymakers and tourists who travel in earthquake- and tsunami-prone areas to its information leaflets "What to do when…
Diamonds are not only beautiful and valuable gems, they also contain information of the geological history. By using ultra-thin slices of diamonds, Dorrit E. Jacob and her colleagues from the Macquarie…
18.06.2016 | After a year and a half on the outer wall of the International Space Station ISS in altitude of 400 kilometers, the space experiment BIOMEX (Biology and Mars experiment) was brought from the International Space Station (ISS) back to…
Zwei Staffeln des GFZ waren auf dem Siegertreppchen beim diesjährigen DAK-Firmenlauf in Potsdam. Die Männerstaffel mit Tom Thurley, Benedikt Soja, Frank Springer und Pascal Martin belegte Rang 2 bei den Teams, das „Mixed Team“ mit Anne Schöpa,…
Eine ungewöhnliche Kooperation eröffnet unverhoffte neue Perspektiven auf die Erforschung regionaler Auswirkungen von Landnutzung und Klimawandel. GFZ-Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler beteiligen sich an einer Expedition unter der Leitung des…
A new atlas of light pollution documents the degree to which the world is illuminated by artificial skyglow. In addition to being a scourge for astronomers, bright nights also affect nocturnal organisms and the ecosystems in which they live. The “New…
In March 1895 German and English language colonial newspapers report on a tsunami that hit the Trobriand Islands as a result of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 to 8. The Trobriand Islands belong to Papua New Guinea in the pacific Solomon Sea. It…
Intracontinental basins like the North German Basin, the West Siberian Basin, the Barents Sea or the Congo Basin are large depressions of the Earth’s surface. How these basins initially start to form and why they subside over hundreds of millions of…
Today, Prof. Liane G. Benning, Head of the GFZ section Interface Geochemistry, is awarded the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London. This medal is awarded biennially 'as an acknowledgement of eminent services to Geology'.