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”.

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.

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.