Erosion processes, material fatigue or earthquakes threaten the stability of dams throughout the world. A German-Kyrgyz research team is developing an innovative early warning system.
VARDA: New database for looking into Earth's past climates, one layer at a time
New VARDA database as a unique tool for paleoclimatologists to synchronize climate records from annually deposited sediments in lakes around the world.
New satellite data show severity of drought summers in 2018 and 2019
Measurements by the GRACE-FO satellite mission show a decline in water storage in Central Europe by up to 94 percent compared with seasonal fluctuations.
Report | First Machine Learning Hackathon at GFZ Potsdam
Assessing mineral concentrations of soil and predicting „earthquakes" in laboratory experiments were the focus of the first Machine Learning Hackathon at GFZ.
Torsten Sachs is part of the Arctic Expedition 'MOSAiC'. On the research vessel "Polarstern", frozen in the Arctic ice, he is drifting towards the North Pole.