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In March 2025, the Italian region of Tuscany, particularly the province of Florence, was hit by severe storms. On 14 March, 70 liters of rain per square meter fell in Florence in just six hours – an amount that normally corresponds to the entire monthly average. This extreme rainfall led to a dangerous rise in […]

Nursing staff are indispensable in crisis situations – be it natural disasters, pandemics or humanitarian emergencies. But how well prepared is nursing care for such challenges? What structures, skills and strategies are needed to be able to act professionally? The congress “Care in Civil Protection” on October 8, 2025 at the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn is dedicated […]

The emissions data for Germany in 2024 show a significant undershoot of the allowed CO2-equivalent limit of 693.4 million tons. However, despite this positive development, Germany risks missing its climate targets for 2030 under the EU Climate Protection Regulation (Effort Sharing Regulation). The most problematic areas are the insufficient progress in the transport and building […]

The REXUS campaign 33/34 was successfully completed. As part of the program, two sounding rockets were launched from the Esrange Space Center in Sweden to test innovative experiments under space conditions. Students from all over Europe had the opportunity to carry out their own scientific investigations in areas such as atmospheric research, materials science and […]

The German Weather Service (DWD) has published a document that compiles the latest publications from their Meteorological Library for the year 2024. The document includes a collection of the newest publications by DWD employees, including contributions to peer-reviewed journals, conference publications, self-published works, and project-related publications, complemented by bibliometric analyses and developments in open-access contributions. […]

On April 14, 2025, experts Dr.-Ing. Margit Schild and Franziskus Bayer will explore the intersections between art and crisis management in the exciting workshop “Action Spaces in Time Crises: Key Synergies Between Art, Disasters, Crises, and Creativity.” Together, they will investigate how creative processes and aesthetic aspects can be applied to crisis management, developing practical […]

Bahía Blanca, a port city in Argentina, was hit by a devastating rainstorm that brought the equivalent of an entire year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours. The floods have claimed at least 16 lives, and more than a thousand people were forced to evacuate. Around one hundred people are still missing, so the […]

On August 29 and 30, 2025, the 2nd Betreuungsdienst-Symposium “Betreuungsdienst in stürmischen Zeiten – Krise oder Chance?” (‘Care services in turbulent times – crisis or opportunity?’) will take place in Bad Wildungen. Experts and leaders from civil protection, representatives from politics, science, and administration, as well as industry exhibitors, will come together for the second […]

Air quality measures in Germany have shown early success: In 2024, the entire set of limits in the European Air Quality Directive was met for the first time. Fine particulate matter levels have remained below the standards for the seventh consecutive year, and the annual mean limit for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) of 40 µg/m³ was […]