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.

A study has shown that gearing risk management measures to the worst-case event experienced to date is not enough to reduce impacts from unprecedented events.

The "Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy" funds eleven short research stays with GFZ participation. The new bidding round starts on 15.08.2022.

Tropical glaciers followed the rhythm of the ice sheet expansion in the northern hemisphere during the last 700,000 years as data from sediments of a high-altitude lake in the Peruvian Andes shows.

Improving exploration efficiency in Europe: The new EU project VECTOR aims at evidence-based, freely accessible knowledge and social acceptance.

The Project from Dr. Razafindrakoto to create a seismological lab in Madagascar wins ARISE Grant.

Open-Earth-Monitor for the use and application of open-source environmental data of critical regions of the Earth: Invitation to the kick-off workshop on 19 July.

14 July 2022 will be the anniversary of the Eifel flood disaster . How can we better deal with such extreme events in the future? Ten recommendations were developed in the KAHR project.

The GFZ hosted the “7th International Meeting on Heat Flow and the Thermal Structure of the Lithosphere”, including a workshop dedicated to the quality scheme of the global heat flow database.

Interview with Dr. Simone Cesca | Causal research in the most important event of induced seismicity in Europe in 2013