For the first time, the "Postdoc Appreciation Week" will also take place in Germany. From 19 to 23 September, events for postdocs will be offered throughout Germany.

A GFZ film is among the finalists of the Earth Futures Festival 2022. Anyone who would like to support the film entry can vote for it until September 15.

The physical mechanisms that cause structures of very unusual rings that can remain in space for months and then suddenly disappear have now been revealed.

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.