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A green landscape. Middle and background: mountains. A river meanders in the foreground.

In these Italian mountains, CO2 emissions from deep rock are more important than the CO2 balance of weathering on the surface – at least where Earth's crust is thin and the heat flow is high

René Steinmann and Jana Täumer

Two new GFZ Discovery Fellowships awarded: René Steinmann is researching ground vibrations in connection with animal movements and Jana Täumer is researching methane sinks in Germany.

Colored representation of earthquake intensity on a map of the Taiwan region.

The region around the city of Hualien on the east coast of Taiwan has been shaken by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4. The media report 9 dead and hundreds injured.

Portrait photo of a man with dark glasses next to the larger-than-life bronze bust of a man with a full beard and glasses. In the background: green trees.

Jürgen Matzka, working group leader in the Geomagnetism Section, is new Chair of the Operations Committee and member of the Executive Council of the global network of geomagnetic field observatories.

Map of northern Germany. There is a red dot with red circles around it at the site of the earthquake near Bremen.

On 25 March, a shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 shook the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony. The possible cause is natural gas extraction in the region.

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