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class="image"> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/image_385x257/public/images/sust_goals.jpg?h=6f637abe&itok=rBfKF80i 1x" media="(min-width: 800px)" type="image/jpeg" width="385" height="257"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/image_800x553/public/images/sust_goals.jpg?h=6f637abe&itok=A71VmyW3 1x" media="(min-width: 480px)" type="image/jpeg" width="800" height="553"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/image_480x320/public/images/sust_goals.jpg?h=6f637abe&itok=LjFC78Zx 1x" media="(min-width: 0px)" type="image/jpeg" width="480" height="320"/> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/image_480x320/public/images/sust_goals.jpg?h=6f637abe&itok=LjFC78Zx" width="480" height="320" alt="Sustainability Goals AW" /> </picture></div> <figcaption class="caption"> Main Sustainable Development Goals for the Department of Earth Sciences. </figcaption> </figure><h2>Understanding the Earth can help to make a better world</h2><p>The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of <strong>societal and economic questions</strong> in areas such as:</p><ul><li>the natural means of existence (water, raw materials, the energy transition),</li><li>the terrestrial environment (influenced by the changing climate, but , e.g., also searching for new methods to remediate pollutions),</li><li>natural hazards and disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods),</li><li>and the safe, responsible and sustainable use of terrestrial space (specifically near surface and underground space).</li></ul><p>The effects of, and adaptation to, the climate emergency relates to a lot of work that we do. The Earth Sciences contributes to most of the <a href="https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/education%20and%20careers/Resources/Posters/Geoscience%20for%20the%20Future%20poster.pdf?la=en" target="_blank">17 Sustainable Development Goals</a> as set by the United Nations. In particular these five:<em> Clean water and sanitation</em>, <em>Affordable and clean energy</em>, <em>Sustainable cities and communities</em>, <em>Climate action</em>, and <em>Life below water</em> are of interest to work in our department.</p><p>It is our mission to advance our understanding and prediction capability of processes that govern the evolution of <em>System Earth</em>. This system is Earth’s structure, together with the internal workings and surface processes, that determine its evolution and current dynamic state. Our scientists study the Earth, and other planets, on scales from the molecular to the planetary scale; from the microsecond to the geological time scale; and from its birth about 4500 million years ago to the present-day, including the origin and evolution of life. We strive to understand the processes that give rise to its immense riches of life and natural resources.</p><p>We honour <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton">James Hutton</a>’s early insight that "from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter".</p></div></div><div id="paragraph-186772" class="content-block"><div class="content-block__inner"><h2 class="title">Research focus</h2><p>Our focus is on four major aspects of the natural Earth:</p></div></div><div id="paragraph-382307" class="content-block content-block--white"><div class="content-block__inner"><ul class="l-spotlight-3-items js-equal-height-footers"><li class="l-spotlight-3-items__item"><div class="card card--385 card--with-content-padding js-equal-height-container"><div class="card__header"><div class="image"> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/image_385x257/public/images/geo-ivau-climate-385x257.png?mt=1590485269&itok=W_sIQcGf 1x" 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