ForMovFluid aims to meet the demands of the European Union by seeking to exploit deposits within its own borders. The initiative is structured as a doctoral network, which is currently actively seeking PhD candidates to carry out their studies in four countries.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change.

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. A research team led by geoscientists from Heidelberg University conducted the analyses, which revealed that human activity in the region resulted in lead contamination of the environment approximately 5,200 years ago – much earlier than previously known. Combined with the results of pollen analyses from the sediment cores, this contamination also offers insights into socioeconomic change in the Aegean.