GeoLog

Help us celebrate excellence in science journalism: Time for nominations for the 2027 EGU Angela Croome Award!

Asmae Ourkiya June 2, 2026

What good is groundbreaking Earth and space science if it never breaks through the laboratory walls and digital libraries? Without skilled journalists, our peer-reviewed papers risk gathering digital dust, and remain isolated from the public policy and societal awareness they are meant to inform. This is why we need science journalists, as they have the skills to take complex scientific results an ...[Read More]

Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

Camille Thomas and Romain Vaucher June 1, 2026

Photo by Eldem Ozdemir. Source: Unsplash

When we (Camille Thomas and Romain Vaucher speaking) entered academia as graduate students in France and Switzerland, we were enthusiastic about the vast amount of research available with a simple click on our university computers. However, we also quickly felt disheartened by the significant amount of research work we couldn’t access when wrapping up our theses from home. Luckily, pirates e ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during May!

Asmae Ourkiya May 29, 2026

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For May, we are not featuring any particular divisions, but an ensemble of all the highlights of this month instead. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Beyond discrete stratocumulus regimes: a ternary continuum of morph ...[Read More]

A mosaic beneath our feet? Connecting soil science and policy at EGU26

Kaisa Säkkinen May 29, 2026

On Friday, May 8, 2026, the final day of the EGU26, I attended a Special Programme Group session of the Soil System Sciences (SSS) division on Facing the last policy challenges in the EU: How soil scientists can contribute to the demands for scientific evidence to support EU policies. The session brought together scientists, policymakers, and representatives from European institutions, including m ...[Read More]