The severe tornado that hit the region around Hodonín a week ago left a scar in the landscape that is visible from space. Department of Remote Sensing of CzechGlobe made…
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Among the twenty-four scientists under 35 years of age who today received the Otto Wichterle Award for 2021 from the hands of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences,…
The International External Evaluation Commission has evaluated the five-year implementation period of the European Research Infrastructure ICOS-ERIC, of which CzechGlobe is a founding member. Since its foundation, it has established…
Global Change Research Institute CAS – CzechGlobe was one of the first institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences to obtain two ISO Certificates in the areas of quality management…
On 13 April 2021, a report by the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change was published. It provides recommendations for tackling the climate crisis. Professor Julia Mildorfová Leventon from…
Kurt Christian Kersebaum has been appointed Honorary Professor at Georg August University in Göttingen. Professor Kersebaum works at the Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Georg August University…
Free paper about Czech Drought Monitor System http://intersucho.cz/en/ published in International Journal of Climatology. Enjoy its scientific descriptions! Key words: soil moisture, satellites, drought modelling, forecast, recent episodes. Download PDF…
Respiration of ecosystems is a major component of the global carbon cycle. Respiration is strongly dependent on air and soil temperature and determines whether terrestrial ecosystems will be a carbon…
As of 1 February 2021, Global Change Research Institute CAS announces the 2nd internal call for project proposals, which will apply for funding through the CzeGGA internal grant program, in…
Just released the new issue of the CzechGlobe Newsletter. To download here: Newsletter 2 – 2020 ENG
An international team of scientists led by Professor Ulf Büntgen from the Global Change Research Institute CAS and the University of Cambridge presented a new approach to climate reconstruction in…
The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the direct and indirect effects of industrial pollution in the region and beyond are far…
On 21st – 25th June 2021, Global Change Research Institute CAS – CzechGlobe organizes the international conference called 6th FORUM CARPATICUM – Linking the Environmental, Political and Societal Aspects for…
The topic on how the frequency and intensity of floods in Europe has changed over the last five hundred years has been studied by an international team of scientists, including…
On Thursday, July 16, the mayor of Brno, JUDr. Markéta Vaňková, and other city representatives visited GCRI CAS – CzechGlobe. Together with the management and representatives of CzechGlobe, they discussed…
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60-70% of soils in Europe are currently considered unhealthy. BENCHMARKS supports the European Commission on its mission to reach “75% of European soils as healthy or significantly improved by 2030” (SH&F mission).
Experts from CzechGlobe are joining leading scientists from across Europe to provide practical and effective solutions for addressing the global biodiversity crisis.
Due to the damage to the Nord Stream gas lines in the Baltic Sea, an enormous amount of methane gas has been released into the atmosphere. The leak is estimated to be equal to the size of a whole year’s methane emissions of a country like Denmark or a city the size of Paris. The methane emissions are confirmed by ICOS ground-based observations from several stations in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Observation satellites were not able to see the emission leaks, because the weather was cloudy.
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Biodiversity survey reveals that more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought
With millions of plant and animal species living in different regions of the planet, biodiversity is a complex topic. Experts from all over the world thus need to be involved to assess the current state of biodiversity, related risks and opportunities for action.
