In recent decades, runoff or sediment input to rivers in the high mountains of Asia has increased sharply and will more than double by 2050.

The 2021 Chamoli disaster in the Indian Himalaya was triggered by an extraordinary rock and ice avalanche and debris flow, that destroyed infrastructure and left more then 200 people dead or missing.

Platinum group elements (PGE, also termed platinoids) have been believed to be extremely poorly soluble and little mobile in natural fluids ...

With progressing global warming, sea ice melting across the Arctic Ocean is expected to further increase and might be even accelerated by the newly described oceanic heat-channel.

Graduates of our international master's degree program CLEWS will be trained to become experts in the field of climate science research in order to address the consequences of global warming.

Two Potsdam researchers are involved in the new international Center for Molecular Water Science, which has now published its research program.

The scientist is honored for his many years of research in South America in the fields of neotectonics and paleoecology.

„DIoGeneS“ contains photos and additional informationen on geologic structures and formations – of small to large scales – from around the world.

An international team of scientists with participation of mineralogist Dr. Maria Kokh from the University of Potsdam was able to elucidate the mystery of ‘invisible’ gold enriched in sulfide minerals.

Since 2015, geologist Sara Savi has been researching the influence of climate on debris flows in the high mountains of Argentina.

scientists analyse consequences of devastating wildfires in Australia 2019/20

Earth science researchers from Potsdam and Bozen demand for new precaution strategies for gravitational mass movements in the Alps

A Germany-wide project examines how to organize safety in urban neighborhoods

A welcome to Peter van der Beek at the Institute of Geosciences

How cities can better cope with climate change

Humboldt Fellow Gautier Nicoli links plate tectonics and the carbon cycle

EGU honours two faculty members of the Institute of Geosciences

Humboldt Fellow Gautier Nicoli links plate tectonics and the carbon cycle

Why a whole region is rotating in the middle of Africa

Environmental scientist Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wagener has been awarded a Humboldt Professorship and will be joining the University of Potsdam to carry out research and teach.

Researchers measure soil moisture with the help of particles from space

Ricarda Winkelmann is a climate researcher and junior professor at the University of Potsdam and the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research

People from all over the world travel through Iceland to see glaciers, waterfalls, volcanoes, geysers - but the true highlights are hidden from the eye.

While there are some well-established theories of orogenesis, many aspects of how, when and why mountain ranges are created remain a mystery.