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Industrial wastewater, slurry, microplastics and heavy metals-the list of pollutants that end up in water bodies is long.

By weakening the North Atlantic overturning circulation, the ocean absorbs less carbon dioxide - resulting in consequential costs and further warming of the climate The ocean is the largest CO2 reservoir on earth.

A weakening of the North Atlantic overturning circulation would cause the ocean to absorb less carbon dioxide - this is associated with economic costs and the climate continues to heat up In Brief Hi

On 2 February 2025, in the midst of the Arctic winter, the temperature at the North Pole was a tad over freezing.

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changed environmental conditions. How they do so is crucial.

As summer temperatures rise, so do the associated health risks. This is particularly true in urban areas and cities such as Heidelberg with a density of buildings and limited green spaces.

On 23 and 24 July, pop singer Taylor Swift gave 2 concerts in the Hamburg Volkspark stadium. Those who couldn't get tickets could at least watch the seismic waves created during the performance, via a live stream from the WAVE network at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

A University of Bonn geologist on board a polar research vessel will be studying the effects of climate change on ice and sea level The British polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough set sa

Norbert Nebes from the University of Jena and Prof. Mulugeta Feseha from the University of Addis Ababa (from left) are documenting archaeological sites in the "Ethiopian Heritage Digital Atlas" (EHDA).

Event Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: Zinnwald, Goldwasserthal, Silberstrasse and above all'Erzgebirge - these place or field names give a clear indication of the treasures that the land in southern Saxony harbours.

  RWTH geologist Professor Klaus Reicherter is on the trail of a "lost earthquake" in southern Spain.

Research on geological deposits at the FRM II Whether sedimentary rocks store fossil hydrocarbons or act as impermeable layers to prevent the rise of oil, natural gas or stored carbon dioxide - all depends on their porosity. The size, shape, organization, and connectivity of the pore spaces are decisive.

Over the next four years, a new joint project will investigate the links between wildfires and climate change.

British Economic and Social Research Council honours project in Brazil with participating geoinformation scientists from Heidelberg A research team including geoinformation scientists from Heidelberg

Officially, we are currently living in the geological epoch known as the Holocene. But the profound impact of human activities on the Earth's systems has triggered discussions regarding a new era: the Anthropocene.

Climatologist Otto Klemm and his students research clouds with ground contact Up on Mount Lulin in Taiwan, at an altitude of 2,862 metres, Robin Achtstetter und Madeleine Falkowski did everything they could to avoid missing the gathering fog.

Twenty-year anniversary of the Mars Express: Planetary researchers at Freie Universität Berlin publish color mosaic of Mars with never before seen details Twenty years ago to the day, the European space probe Mars Express began its journey to Earth's "red" neighbor.

One thing is certain: life on Earth emerged very early in the history of planet Earth. There are few concrete answers to the questions of how and where the first organic molecules were formed.

Harald Hiesinger talks about the European Space Agency's -PANGAEA- training programme and about his job as a course instructor In a few years' time, man wants to return to the Moon.

News from To mark the meteorological start of winter today (1 December 2023), Leipzig University's Office for University Communications is publishing its first multimedia story entitled "In search of snow's secrets".

Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years ago. Remains of such an Archaic temple have now been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, which presumably once formed part of the sanctuary of Poseidon.

Researchers from the University of Bonn install extremely sensitive measuring instrument at Todenfeld Observatory Researchers at the University of Bonn have installed a superconducting gravimeter at the Todenfeld observatory a few kilometers from the town of Rheinbach.

Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis and European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts team up The University of Bonn, the University of Cologne and Forschungszentrum J