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GM
Geomorphology

In the News: Flood wave in Nepal: climate disaster or not?

November 4, 2026
A snow-covered mountain peak rises into a deep blue sky, partially obscured by thick, white clouds. The steep, jagged slopes are bright white with visible vertical ridges.

By Aris Kwadijk, PhD candidate, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University, and Walter W. Immerzeel, Professor, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University. Email: a.kwadijk@uu.nl, w.w.immerzeel@uu.nl. Website: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/AKwadijk, https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/WWImmerzeel. Was the catastrophic flood wave in the Himalaya on 26 August a consequence of climate change, and therefore the fault of the …[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The spice must flow: The Geodynamics of Dune

November 4, 2026
A person stands in silhouette atop a golden sand dune, holding two objects. They are surrounded by vast, undulating dunes under a pale sky.

Everyone wants something from Arrakis. The Emperor wants control, the great houses want spice, and the Fremen would quite reasonably like everyone else to leave. I would settle for a geological map. Preferably with a few cross-sections, although I realise that asking someone to carry a seismic survey across sandworm territory might complicate the risk …[Read More]

BG
Biogeosciences

Fieldwork and Family: Parenting in the Biogeosciences

, , , , , , and November 3, 2026
Four people stand side by side in colourful rain boots, their footwear heavily coated in dark brown mud. They are standing on a thick layer of wet, dark brown soil.

It took almost two years to write this blog post – not because the challenges described below are rare, but because the scarcest resource for parents in academia is uninterrupted time. Academic careers are built on time: time to think, to meet collaborators, to develop the next research proposal, and to finally get that paper …[Read More]

ST
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

ST-ECS Networking Campfire: Navigating the Peer Review Process – Insights from an Editor

November 2, 2026
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Have you ever wondered what makes a good peer review? Are you an early career scientist preparing to review your first manuscript, or curious about what happens behind the scenes in academic publishing? The Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the EGU Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division is delighted to invite you to our upcoming ST-ECS …[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

The dam upstream: why flood warnings fail the White Volta Basin and what we can do about it

and November 2, 2026
Map of Ghana and Burkina Faso showing the White Volta Basin in light blue, a green validation domain, and the locations of a dam and a gauge. An inset map shows the region's location in West Africa.

On 25 August 2025, SONABEL – Burkina Faso’s national utility – began releasing water from the Bagre Dam two days ahead of schedule. The reservoir had reached 90% of its capacity, just 0.73 metres below its maximum retention limit [9]. The Water Resources Commission and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in Ghana issued immediate …[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Which rain and temperature should drive your model? A guide to select daily forcing datasets , with application to northern Italy

October 29, 2026
Which rain and temperature should drive your model? A guide to select daily forcing datasets , with application to northern Italy

If you want to run a hydrological model  anywhere, the first question is which meteorological forcing to use. For the Po basin, or anywhere in northern Italy,  there are today at least a dozen gridded products, regional and European, built from different meteorological networks, with different methods and for different purposes. I reviewed them from …[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Cooling glaciers in a warming world?

October 28, 2026
Cooling glaciers in a warming world?

Small glaciers are often written off: too small to matter, and soon gone anyway. Yet recent disasters in the Alps show that they can still pose a threat. And some are doing something rather unexpected: while the climate warms, the ice inside them has turned cold. We drilled into six small Swiss glaciers to find …[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The Breathing Ice Sheet: How Antarctica’s Changing Ice Moves the Ground Beneath It

and October 28, 2026
Map of Antarctica showing ice flow speeds in blue and white, with red circles of varying sizes indicating specific areas of interest across the continent.

In this week’s blog, Dwijendra Pandey, a PhD student in the Tectonic Geodesy Group at CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad, India, takes us beneath Antarctica’s ice to explore how changes in ice and snow move the solid Earth, and how scientists track this subtle motion from space and on the ground. Antarctica might seem like the last place you …[Read More]