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EGU Photo Competition 2026: Now open for submissions!

EGU Photo Competition 2026: Now open for submissions!

If you are registered for the EGU26 General Assembly (3 – 8 May), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, today the sixteenth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 8 April, every participant registered for the General …[Read More]

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Highlighting: Strike-Slip Faults! (Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago)

Highlighting: Strike-Slip Faults! (Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago)

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes and Anna van den Broek (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu, a.j.vandenbroek@uu.nl), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago, PhD student, University of Washington. Email: tarangui@uw.edu. Website: https://taranguiz.github.io Can you describe in …[Read More]

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Why Strike and Dip Conversions Confuse Even Professional Geologists ?

Geologists taking structural measurements in the Congo River, with the overlay title: Why Strike and Dip Conversions Confuse Even Professional Geologists?

Whether you are a student, educator, or industry professional, you have likely encountered the myriad conventions used for recording geological orientations. For students, this landscape can be perplexing; for professionals, it may lead to the sinking feeling that a crucial undergraduate lecture was missed. Indeed, converting strike and dip measurements between different systems, such as …[Read More]

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Is How We View the Atmosphere Too Dry?

Is How We View the Atmosphere Too Dry?

Many people think about air as a fixed mix of gases like nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide (CO2). But the main reason the composition of air changes—water vapour—tends to get overlooked. Scientists often remove it from atmospheric samples before analysing air composition, and this convenient habit can make us forget something surprising: water vapour isn’t …[Read More]

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Writing for the BG blog

UNAM Campus in Mexico City, showing atomic mode, with tree in the foreground

Thank you for your interest in writing for the Biogeoscience Blog! The BG blog is created for and by EGU’s biogeoscience community. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any ideas, feedback or questions. What we publish Broadly speaking anyone can write for the blog and all ideas are welcome. Since the main readership …[Read More]

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Prevent before repair: What a new hydrology-based index reveals about river ecological status

Prevent before repair: What a new hydrology-based index reveals about river ecological status

When I first began analysing agricultural pressures in German river networks, I expected the familiar story of nutrient loads, pesticide traces and differences between landscapes. What I did not expect was how narrow the ecological safe operating space has become for many rivers. Even small increases in agricultural pressure, especially from pesticides, reduced the likelihood …[Read More]

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Mathematical closed-form solutions in Geodynamics: insightful or detrimental?

Mathematical closed-form solutions in Geodynamics: insightful or detrimental?

Mathematics is certainly not every scientist’s cup of tea. Despite the latter, they are, for the most part, very important, since most problems, regardless of their complexity, start and end with a mathematical equation (or set of equations). In this week’s blog, Dimitrios Papadomarkakis (student at the National Technical University of Athens), discusses the subject …[Read More]