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[Translate to English:] Metallbrücke, die zum Teil gebrochen ist und durch die ungewöhnlich viel schlammiges Wasser fließt

The average of maximum daily rainfall is increasing by 2.3% per decade

Tim Schöne in front of his scientific poster

Tim Schöne receives the “2025 Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation Award”

Measurement data plotted as an x-y graph: Each earthquake is represented by a point, with the earthquake magnitude plotted on the y-axis and the year (between 1982 and 2024) plotted on the x-axis. The most recent earthquakes in Klingenthal-Kraslice are shown in red, all other earthquakes in yellow.

Massive earthquake swarm near Klingenthal/Eger in 2024 was triggered by rising magmatic…

A young woman with long dark hair and a man are standing in front of a velvet red curtain. She is wearing a gold medal around her neck and holding a certificate in her hand.

Prof. Patricia Martínez-Garzón appointed to the “Academia Joven de España”

Map of the Eifel region in western Germany, shown in shades of grey. Several cities are marked: Cologne and Maastricht in the north, Frankfurt in the east, and Koblenz in the south. Many small triangles show where the measuring stations were located. Many were aligned along a chain from north-east to south-west and in the centre around Lake Laach.

Surprising findings on the structure of the Eifel volcanoes

A tractor with a trailer spraying finely ground basalt drives across a field of grass.

Project launch for “RESET” on land-based CO2 removal

A blue box with a measuring device on a rolling container. Next to it, two people stand and smile at the camera.

Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Award 2025 for DiGOS

Dr. Nivedita Sairam

Dr Nivedita Sairam receives Arne Richter Award 2026

Susanne Hemmleb (right) and her GEOFON colleague Peter Evans (both Section 2.4) hold the CoreTrus

GEOFON Data Center receives CoreTrustSeal certification

Map showing a marine area. Stars and circles mark various earthquakes. Coloured lines indicate different areas of a seismic fault zone.

Eastward earthquake rupture progression along the Main Marmara Fault towards Istanbul

Two women standing side by side. The woman on the right is holding a medal and a certificate, while the woman on the left is holding a bouquet of flowers. Both are smiling at the camera.

Professor Dr Simona Regenspurg receives Patricius Medal from German Geothermal Association

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Prof. Martin Herold is one of the most cited researchers in his field worldwide

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New section heads in Department 5 “Geoinformation”

23rd teacher training course “Autumn School: System Earth” at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences.

GFZ Professional Development for Teachers: Geo-ecosystems in Transition

The drilling site: In the foreground, four blue and three white containers with stairs and pipes. Behind them, a larger facility with thick pipes and liquid tanks.

Successful tests on underground heat storage in Berlin-Adlershof

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High-level dialogue concerning the EU Water Resilience Strategy

Two globes on a black background. In the region around the North Pole, cloudy rings in bright colours.

New model for aurora forecast - in real time and up to three days in advance

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Obituary for Prof. Dr Peter Möller

The image shows a colourful fragment of the lowermost continental mantle.

Where does continental material on islands come from?

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Prof. Jean Braun was awarded the Dodson Prize by the International Standing Committee on…

Above, the ERC logo; below, two portrait photos: on the left, a woman with glasses and short hair in front of green bushes; on the right, a man with short hair and glasses in front of green bushes.

New Synergy Grant and participation go to GFZ

Excerpt from a map of the Phlegraean Fields near Naples, Italy: Left: Red dots mark smartphone sensors, yellow triangles mark fixed seismological stations. Right: The area is coloured in shades of yellow, red and purple according to the amplification of seismic waves.

Turning Smartphones into Earthquake Sensors

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Among the “100 minds of capital city science 2025”

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PD Dr Heidi Kreibich is the new head of the GFZ Hydrology Section

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Best Poster Award for Dr. Theresa Hennig

mage from the textbook ‘TECTONIC GEODYNAMICS’

New textbook combines geoscientific disciplines

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Science up close: Lectures by two GFZ researchers at the Aurich Science Days 2025

semicircle depicting the future missions, graphics of the new satellites

For policy-makers: Earth Observation Data in near real-time and high spatial resolution

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Dr. Joseph Magnall becomes associate editor of the renowned journal Economic Geology

World map with coloured areas indicating the age of renewable forests

Renewable forests absorb CO2 most rapidly when they are 20 to 40 years old

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