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Tag: Climate Research

Projects

22 August 2022

Improving fire predictions

Forest fires contribute to biodiversity, and in many regions of the world they are an element of land use. Major and long-lasting fires are a health risk, however, costing lives, resulting in the loss of assets and affecting the global carbon cycle. A team of German and Austrian researchers are investigating the human impact on […] Continue reading “Improving fire predictions”

Projects

30 December 2019

Frost-produced crystals as permafrost markers

An Austro-Russian team led by geologist Yuri Dublyansky has investigated cryogenic calcite crystals from caves in the Urals. While largely ignored in the past, these crystals provide valuable information about climate fluctuations in northern Eurasia in the course of the past 500,000 years. Continue reading “Frost-produced crystals as permafrost markers”

Portrait

12 January 2017

Climate archive in the ice

Von Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The meteorologist Elisabeth Schlosser about her field research in ice that is 800,000 years old, about finding that you must not say what you think in Austria, and about why she thinks there is a two-class science system. Continue reading “Climate archive in the ice”

Projects

14 December 2015

A climatological treasure from Nevada

Devils Hole in the USA is a very unique place. In this subaqueous cavern, conditions have remained stable for hundreds of thousands of years. In a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, researchers from Innsbruck investigate this valuable climatological archive and, in the process, try to get to the bottom of a mystery. Continue reading “A climatological treasure from Nevada”

Projects

30 November 2015

Climate change and justice

What responsibility do we, the currently living, bear for historical emissions and their consequences? What obligations do we stand under as a result? These sensitive questions were asked in a research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and new theoretical principles for the handling of historical emissions were developed. Continue reading “Climate change and justice”

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