MEDIA Coverage of our Research (selection)
| 2025 | Šeruga, K. (2025), Cave deposits reveal a permafrost-free Arctic, Eos, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EO250285. Published on 4 August 2025. |
| 2025 | van Deelen, G. (2025), Coral cores pinpoint onset of industrial deforestation, Eos, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EO250289. Published on 7 August 2025. |
| 2024 | “Thingvellir”, Movie by Prof. Clive Oppenheimer (Cambridge University, UK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GEynDycWis |
| 2022 | Newsweek “Severe drought helped foster rise of Islam” (www.newsweek.com/severe-drought-helped-foster-rise-islam-study-1719220) |
| 2022 | HAARETZ “Megadrought contributed to fall of Jewish Kingdom in Arabia, rise of Islam, study suggests” (https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-06-16/ty-article-magazine/megadrought-contributed-to-fall-of-jewish-kingdom-in-arabia-rise-of-islam-study-suggests/00000181-6bf9-d82b-a3ab-ebfd877f0000) |
| 2022 | Forbes „Dripstone records drought that might have paved the way for Islam” (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2022/06/17/dripstone-records-drought-that-might-have-paved-the-way-for-islam/) |
| 2022 | WELT „Wie auch das Klima den Triumph des Islam ermöglichte“ (https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article239938597/Mohammeds-Aufstieg-Wie-auch-das-Klima-den-Triumph-des-Islam-ermoeglichte.html) |
| 2022 | NZZ magazin „Hat eine Klimakatstrophe den Islam begünstigt“ (https://magazin.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag/wissen/hat-eine-klimakatastrophe-den-islam-beguenstigt-ld.1688875?reduced=true) |
| 2022 | Spektrum „Klimageschichte – Schwere Dürre machte dem Islam den Weg frei“ (https://www.spektrum.de/news/schwere-duerre-machte-dem-islam-den-weg-frei/2031043) |
| 2022 | ORF „Dürren begünstigten Aufstieg des Islams“ (https://science.orf.at/stories/3213697/) |
| 2022 | TAZ „Mit der Asche kam das Ende“ (https://taz.de/Historiker-entdecken-das-Klima/!5852413/) |
| 2021 | ZDF Terra X: „Grosse Mythen aufgedeckt – Noah und die Sintflut“. (https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/grosse-mythen-aufgedeckt-noah-und-die-sintflut-102.html) |
| 2021 | SRF Schweiz Aktuell „Tropfsteine geben Auskunft über das Klima„ (https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/schweiz-aktuell/video/tropfsteine-geben-auskunft-ueber-das-klima?urn=urn:srf:video:b1e8d401-2583-4bc1-96e1-7d6917f02ded) |
| 2020 | UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel (https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/Uni-Nova~magazineId=327f3990-863b-42ec-bbf7-2e7dea6d2c30~?currentPage=2) |
| 2019 | SRF 2 Kultur, (https://www.srf.ch/kultur/wissen/klimaforschung-in-hoehlen-in-stalagmiten-sind-die-geheimnisse-der-menschheit-gespeichert#main-comments) |
| 2018 | BBC Radio, Paul Hudson’s weather show “Solar activity” (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016jv8d) |
| 2017 | BBC Radio, Paul Hudson’s weather show |
| 2016 | BBC Radio, Paul Hudson’s weather show |
| 2015 | The Guardian, „Applying for a postdoc job? Here are 18 tips for a successful application”, (http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/feb/01/applying-for-a-postdoc-job-here-are-18-tips-for-a-successful-application) |
| 2012 | „Als die Wüste gelebt hat“, by Roland Fischer, Horizonte, March 2012 |
| 2011 | DRS2 (Swiss Radio) Expeditionen: Abstieg in die Unterwelt (7.7.2011, http://www.earthsci.unibe.ch/news/presse/WissDRS2110709_Fleitmann_Tropfsteine.mp3) |
| 2011 | World Radio Switzerland; http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/debunking-noahs-ark.shtml |
| 2009 | „Riesenschritt dank Berner Klimaforscher“, News (Der Tagesanzeiger), 29.10.2009 |
| 2009 | „Certaines fluctuations climatiques sont aléatoires“, 20minutes, 29.10.2009 |
| 2009 | „In scharf bewachten Höhlen“, by Helen Jaisli, Horizonte, Juni 2009 |
| 2009 | „La stalagmite qui avait capturé 18 siècles d”histoire de la Chine“, by Marine Corniou, l”Humanité, 5-11 Février 2009 |
| 2008 | „Fällt kein Regen, fallen Dynastien“, by Jürgen Langenbach, Die Presse, 07.11.2008 |
| 2007 | „Versteinerter Klimawandel” by Jürgen Steiner, Berner Zeitung, 08.12.2007 |
| 2007 | „Versteinertes Wasser” by Gerald Traufetter, Der Spiegel (http://www.geo.unibe.ch/presse/PR071015SpVersteinertesWasser_hp.pdf) |
| 2007 | Science, „Deciphering ancient weather reports, drip by drip” by Jacopo Pasotti, Science, 317, 448 (2007). |
| 2007 | „Kenya erosion portends problems“, by Nicole Branan. Geotimes, May 2007 |
| 2007 | “Kenyas fruchtbarer Ackerboden schwindet” by Martin Läubli, Tages-Anzeiger, 27.04.2007. (http://www.geo.unibe.ch/presse/PRTA070427Korallen.pdf) |
| 2007 | „Ancient coral reef tells the history of Kenya”s soil erosion”. Science Daily |
| 2007 | „Tropfsteine als Klimazeugen“ by Regina Partyngl, Der Bund, 07.04.2007, 33.(http://www.geo.unibe.ch/presse/PR070407BundStalagmiten.pdf) |
| 2005 | “Changes in the sun may sway the tropical monsoon” by Richard A. Kerr, Science 308, 787 |
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