The amount of mercury discovered in this area exceeds any value ever recorded in remote marine sediments, states Professor Hamed Sanei, who is part of the international research group from Denmark, Canada, Germany and Japan, which is behind the discovery. Read more about the surprising study here.

Astrid Strunk from the Department of Geoscience was among five lucky researchers each to receive DKK 50,000, when this year's PhD prizes were awarded to young researchers with extraordinary talent. Her research project reconstructed how the Ice Sheet in Northern Greenland reacts to climate change and improved some of the methods for carbon dating.

In a new podcast, you can hear Associate Professor Søren Munch Kristiansen from Geoscience talk about his work in geology. For him, people are especially exciting – and his work is centered around understanding how the Earth affects us and how we have affected it. Aarhus Studenterradio has made the podcast. You can hear it here. (In Danish)

On board the ship Celtic Explorer, Per Trinhammer will for the next 4 weeks together with researchers and engineers from Danish, British and Irish universities map the seabed in the Atlantic Ocean under Porcupine and Rockall basins. They look at how the Earth's deep interior has affected the global climate in the geological past. Follow them here.

More than 60% of the applied water in flood irrigation can slowly return back to the riparian zones and streams with delays that can be more than a month. This 'temporary storage' of water is an important component of the water cycle. This can be seen in models that Niels Claes has made with partners from the University of Wyoming.