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500 years of climate change in Greenland recorded in juniper wood. New research demonstrates the unprecedented rate of modern Arctic warming

Nature Communications has published a paper entitled ‘500-year paleoclimate record inferred from Greenland Juniper wood contextualises current climate warming’. It was prepared by an international team of researchers led by Dr Magdalena Opała-Owczarek, a professor at the University of Silesia. The article presents a reconstruction of summer temperature variability in southern Greenland over the past...

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A recipe for efficient management of riverbank filtration sites in a few steps

Members of the research team “Groundwater under human impact” (PhD student Krzysztof Janik and Dr Sławomir Sitek) in co-authorship with Dr Arno Rein (Technical University of Munich) published an article entitled “Towards efficient management of riverbank filtration sites: new insights on river–groundwater interactions from environmental tracers and high-resolution monitoring” in the prestigious journal Hydrology and...

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First joint water monitoring campaign under the CRossWATER project

In July 2025, the first water environment monitoring campaign of the CRossWATER project took place in Zgorzelec and Görlitz. With the support of the water supply companies from Görlitz and Zgorzelec, groundwater samples were collected from 40 locations, along with river water samples from the Lusatian Neisse and Czerwona Woda. Fieldwork also included measurements of...

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The First Application of Critical-to-Point Models to Non-Mining Induced Seismicity

A PhD student at the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Silesia, M.Sc. Eng. Przemysław Romański, together with his supervisors, Dr. Maciej Mendecki and Dr. Iwona Stan-Kłeczek, has published an article in the prestigious journal Engineering Geology. The publication, entitled The First Application of AMR Approach to Non-Mining Induced Seismicity: A Case Study...

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Sandur kettle holes as time capsules

Dr Joanna Szafraniec’s research focused on the kettle holes on Skeiðarársandur (Southern Iceland). Their formation is associated with melting buried ice blocks, broken off from the glacier front during glacial floods (jökulhlaup). These landforms are effective sediment traps for aeolian material, where this material can accumulate. Under the contemporary climate warming, younger depressions (~30 years...

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