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Can Pastoralism and Tourism Go Hand in Hand? Three Models of Relationships Shaping European Mountain Landscapes

Europe’s traditional mountain landscapes have been undergoing profound transformations for decades as a result of the decline of pastoralism and the expansion of tourism. In an article published in Land Use Policy, Michał Sobala and Anna Żemła-Siesicka from the Landscape Research Group propose a new approach to understanding these changes by applying a modified DPSIR...

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Hundreds of Thousands of Years of Stability in Alpine Cliffs

Why do some mountain slopes fail catastrophically, while others remain stable for hundreds of thousands of years despite repeated glaciations, earthquakes, and ongoing tectonic activity? The latest research by an international team led by Dr. hab. Jacek Szczygieł from our Institute of Earth Sciences provides new answers to this question. The results have been published...

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Jurassic serpulid-hydroid symbiosis

Symbiosis plays a key role in the functioning of ecosystems and in the evolution of organisms; however, direct evidence of such relationships in the fossil record is rare. The Jurassic seas of the Polish Basin nearly 170 million years ago concealed complex and exceptionally close symbiotic interactions. Six years after the publication of the first...

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Researchers from our Institute co-author a new volume of the landmark monograph of Geological Structure of Poland vol. TECTONICS

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hab. Jacek Szczygieł, Professor of the University of Silesia, and Prof. Dr. Hab. Jerzy Żaba are co-authors of the monograph “Geological Structure of Poland. Volume 2: Tectonics”, published in 2026 by the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute. The new volume continues the long-running series “Geological Structure...

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