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Launch Event of the international platform "Integrative and Transformative Research on Earth and Societies" (InTRES)
06/17/2026 ·On 25 June 2026, the international platform “Integrative and Transformative Research on Earth and Societies” (InTRES) will be officially launched with an online event. Hosted by the Leibniz Research Network “Earth & Societies”, the platform is designed to foster inter- and transdisciplinary research on the interlinkages between the Earth System and societies in the Anthropocene.
Research network successfully presented at XIX World Water Congress, Marrakech
12/10/2025 ·The Leibniz Research Network ‘Earth & Societies’ successfully contributed to the XIX World Water Congress in Marrakech organised by the International Water Resources Association through the working group ‘Freshwater & Societies’. The scientific coordinator and working group co-chair, Raghid Shehayeb, presented on the Integrative and Transformative Research on Water and Societies, exploring the research gaps and identifying the demands.
Reborn articles: rethinking the way we produce and publish science
06/16/2025 ·A new open-source approach enhances the reusability of scientific results by producing them human- and machine-readable. Learn more about the approach developed by researchers from the TIB—Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, a member of the Earth & Societies Leibniz Research Network.
Are there Stone Age megastructures on the Baltic Sea floor? Research project SEASCAPE starts with kick-off at the IOW
05/28/2025 ·The western Baltic Sea may harbour more of humanity’s cultural heritage than previously thought: underwater landscapes with monumental structures built by Stone Age hunter-gatherers. The interdisciplinary joint research project SEASCAPE, led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), now wants to investigate these unique traces. Today, researchers from all SEASCAPE partner institutions are meeting at the IOW to kick off the three-year collaboration.
Research network study successfully presented at EGU 2025
05/22/2025 ·This year, the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) featured a session on "Atmospheric impacts of rocket launches and artificial object re-entries: knowns, unknowns, and research priorities" for the first time.
Holes in the atmosphere
09/03/2024 ·A paywalled article on SPIEGEL ONLINE reports on the effects of rockets and satellites on the Earth's middle and upper atmosphere. Based on the explosion of a Starship spacecraft from SpaceX, the consequences of the increasing number of rocket launches and deorbiting satellites are also outlined by Claudia Stolle, the director of the IAP, who recently contributed to a corresponding study.
Deorbiting satellites: Are mega-constellations damaging the ozone layer?
07/26/2024 ·Deutschlandfunk presented the results on the impact of nitrogen oxides from incinerating space debris on the middle and upper atmosphere of the research network together with a complementary study on aluminum from space debris by the University of Southern California.