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IGLUNA: students work towards building an icy human habitat on the Moon!

May 22, 2019
IGLUNA: students work towards building an icy human habitat on the Moon!
Artist’s impression of a lunar habitat in Ice on the Moon. Credits: ESA

What does it take to build a habitat in ice on the Moon? An international group of university students and professionals is working together to provide this answer and develop a sustainable and operational habitat in lunar ice. The project is called IGLUNA and is organised by the Swiss Space Center and the European Space Agency (ESA) as the first initiative from ESA_Lab, an ESA interuniversity res ...[Read More]

Could beavers be responsible for long-debated deposits?

May 3, 2019
Could beavers be responsible for long-debated deposits?
The evidence: a beaver dam and surrounding swamp in Lithuania. Credit: Jūsų darbas via Wikimedia Commons

Following her presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, I caught up with geomorphologist and environmental detective Annegret Larsen from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, about beavers, baffling sediments and a case she’s been solving for the past seven years. Back in 2012 the German geomorphology community was seriously debating the source of buried black ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: “Grown-ups are not focusing on the plastic problem, not as much as I want them to”

April 24, 2019
GeoTalk: “Grown-ups are not focusing on the plastic problem, not as much as I want them to”
We caught up with Lucie Parsons, a ten-year old girl from Walkington, England, who is on a personal mission to save the environment from plastic pollution. She and her mother presented at the EGU General Assembly 2019 earlier this month. Credit: Maria Rubal Thomsen

Lucie Parsons, a ten-year old girl from the small village of Walkington, in England, is on a personal mission to save the environment from plastic pollution. After seeing on the BBC Blue Planet II documentary how litter in the ocean is damaging ecosystems, she decided to take action. Now she gives talks and is co-researcher in her mother’s PhD on climate change and the youth voice. Lucie has come ...[Read More]