Giant particle accelerator in the sky
The Earth’s magnetic field is trapping high energy particles. When the first satellites were launched into space, scientists led by James Van... [mehr]
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Drought in Europe decreases carbon uptake and crop yields
ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, has enabled a set of studies showing how nature and crops in Europe respond to extremely dry... [mehr]
Failures of Germany‘s largest cliff coast sensed by seismometers
Dry summers are increasing the risk of large cliff collapses. - - The ten km long, bright white coast of Germany‘s largest island, Rügen, is... [mehr]
Artificial Intelligence Learns Continental Hydrology
The complex distribution of continental water masses in South America has been determined with a new Deep-Learning-Method using satellite data. -... [mehr]
Geothermal Energy from Shell Limestone
In 2017 a huge storage facility in the pores of a sandstone layer at a depth of between 1015 and 1045 meters below Berlin's Grunewald forest that... [mehr]
First conference for research software in Germany
After the success of the first three international conferences of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) in Great Britain, the first conference in... [mehr]
First detection of rain over the ocean by navigation satellites
In order to analyse climate change or provide information on natural hazards, for example, it is important for researchers to gather knowledge... [mehr]
Why Tehran Is Sinking Dangerously
Iran has a water problem. The reserves in many groundwater basins there have been severely depleted. For the last forty years, the country has... [mehr]
Searching for clues on extreme climate change
The remains of a buried pine forest at the foot of Mont Saint Genis in Southern France yield insightful information on a drastic climate change... [mehr]