On your marks, get set, go! – this was the motto at the Biosphäre Potsdam last Sunday, where the proWissen run took place.

Every year on 1 September, GFZ welcomes new employees who will complete their training or their voluntary year.

Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation, says a new study in Science. Effective measures for halting deforestation must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture.

2nd International Symposium of International Association of Geodesy’s Commission 4 “Positioning and Applications” in Potdam. In focus: Space Weather and various applications of GNSS.

How thick should clay be as a host rock for a repository? Theresa Hennig applied numerical simulations to show how geochemical concentration gradients enhance the migration of uranium in claystone.

Hexagonal SiGe semiconductor for optoelectronics: synthesis of the material succeeds using high pressure and temperature opening a possible solution to a pressing optoelectronic problem.

Landslides increasingly threaten the world's poor cities as heavy rains and informal urbanisation destabilise slopes in the tropics. Ugur Öztürk and colleagues showed this by modelling in “Nature”.

Positive interim results of the GFZ Pupils' Laboratory in the BMBF-funded project before the start of the 3rd cycle

With a two-day symposium in Istanbul, earthquake researchers are honoring four decades of Turkish-German collaboration. In focus: the vulnerable Marmara region in NW Türkiye.

We mourn the death of Egon Althaus (1933-2022). He was instrumental in founding the GFZ Potsdam in 1992 and played a major role in determining its scientific orientation.