Copernicus Sentinel-6B delivers first altimeter images and reaches final orbit
Earth sciences
Are All Coasts Tsunami-Safe?
UNESCO aims to make all vulnerable coastlines worldwide "tsunami-ready" by 2030. This goal remains urgent, even 15 years after the tsunami in Japan that claimed over 18,000 lives on March 11, 2011, and led to a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Twelve criteria must be met to achieve this. But how do affected communities know how to connect to early warning systems or create an evacuation map? A team led Jörn Behrens from the Earth and Society Research Hub (ESRAH) at the University of Hamburg has now published the first comprehensive handbook on tsunami preparedness.
New discoveries cast doubt on old theory
The expansion of modern humans out of Africa likely unfolded differently than previously thought: contrary to earlier assumptions, south-east Arabia was repeatedly inhabited by humans during the late Pleistocene.
Franconia’s agriculture of the future: olives and rice instead of barley and sugar beet?
A new study by the University of Würzburg shows that undamped climate change will radically change German agriculture by 2100 and could bring Mediterranean crops to Franconia.
Antarctic ice melt slowed global ocean circulation
A look into Earth's history shows that the ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification.
New measurement campaign investigates clouds over Arctic sea ice
The international research campaign COMPEX (Clouds over complex environment) is kicking off with measurement flights over the Arctic and will investigate the properties of clouds over sea ice that cannot be detected by satellites.
How oxygen enriched the Earth’s atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago
Cyanobacteria as they still exist today were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen.
Surprisingly in sync: Sunlight and sediments
New Antarctica study involving Uni Bonn shows the influence of solar cycles on the stability of coastal ice.
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Copernicus Sentinel-6B delivers first altimeter images and reaches final orbit