A team of geoscientists lead by Guido M. Gianni identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of the Earth’s crust in Japan and neighboring regions: The so-called "same-dip double subduction" (SDDS) in nearby oceanic trenches has effects reaching hundreds and thousands of kilometres away from the zone of subduction. Guido M. Gianni, from GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, and his colleagues from GFZ and the University of Miami, report their findings in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Geography as a school subject is under pressure. There aren't enough qualified teachers and it loses out to other subjects in school. In many countries, important aspects are left out of the geography curricula. 

A new collaborative study between Reichman University and the Technion reveals, for the first time, how living bacteria are able to survive inside dust particles transported through the atmosphere by desert storms originating in the Sahara Desert and Egypt, ultimately reaching Israel.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Bern and ETH Zurich have shown how climate change is intensifying supercell thunderstorms in Europe. At a global temperature increase of 3 degrees Celsius, these powerful storms are expected to occur more frequently, especially in the Alpine region. This research utilizes a state-of-the-art digital map that provides unprecedented precision in tracking these storms.