Climate: Past, Present & Future

Writing Climate: a blog at the crossroads of Science, Art and Travel

Valeria Mascolo October 24, 2025

Screenshot for my blog, reachable at: https://valermas.github.io/blog/

It took me many travels, experiences, and an entire PhD on climate-related topics to realize that all these dots could be connected. How I Perceive Our Warming World is a blog at the intersection of my life passions: travel, art, and climate. It is not about travel, nor about art, nor about climate alone: it is about all of them together. Each of these passions offers a different lens through whic ...[Read More]

Meet the new ECS-Team of the Climate Division

Bianca Biess July 31, 2025

Dear Climate ECS Community, Welcome to the Climate ECS community! We’re a team of early career scientists who love connecting with fellow researchers, organizing events, and building a strong and supportive network. Let’s grow, share, and create impact together! Early career scientists (ECSs) make up a significant part of the EGU membership. We are committed to ensuring that your voice is heard, y ...[Read More]

The rabbit and the tortoise – what does a glacial cycle need to be a glacial cycle?

Sergio Pérez-Montero June 2, 2025

Figure 1. Erratic boulder from the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park. Credit to Michael Poland (from usgs.gov).

The climate is not what it used to be and it will never be the same again. This is what the models say. Where does this knowledge come from? In short, we learn it from the clues that nature left on the planet since its formation. And it is precisely with these observations where our story begins. Since the beginnings of mountaineering, many visitors of the Alps and other mountain ranges have wonde ...[Read More]

Early farmers of the Pacific recorded in sediment cores from Vanuatu

Giorgia Camperio and Nemiah Ladd May 13, 2025

A schematic landscape of Vanuatu depicting some of the signals that can be transported and preserved in the sediment. Fecal markers, indicating the presence of human and pigs, palmitone as a proxy specific for taro, charcoal as a proxy for burning. The combination of these proxies is used as indication of human presence. Figure from Camperio, 2024, PhD Thesis.

The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that is punctuated by diverse islands and archipelagos. Some of these islands closer to Asia and the Australian landmass have been home to humans for tens of millennia. Others – spread across Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia – make up Remote Oceania and were only settled by humans within the past few thousand years. Archeological investigations have provided ...[Read More]