Regular Features

GeoTalk: Meet Annegret Larsen, Biogeomorphologist and Quaternary Scientist passionate about rewilding and a member of EGU’s Biodiversity Task Force.

Chloe Hill May 12, 2025

Annegret Larsen. Photo Credit: Guy Ackermans

Annegret, welcome to GeoTalk! You’re a researcher who focuses on abiotic-biotic environmental interactions. Can you tell us how the implications of your research extend to sustainable management practices? The United Nations, European Union, and national governments require us to restore landscapes to a ‘natural’ state. However, European landscapes have been shaped by human activity for thousands ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the winners of the EGU25 Photo Competition!

Hazel Gibson May 2, 2025

For this year’s Photo Contest, EGU received a number of amazing images capturing a broad spectrum of the geosciences. Since the selection committee whittled the field down to 10 finalists, you have been voting for your favourites throughout EGU25’s week-long conference, both on-site in Vienna at the EGU booth, and online. After an enthusiastic response from voters, we are now ready -and very ...[Read More]

A Geoscientist’s Colorful Journey from Research to Children’s Books

Anna Katsigera and Lucia Perez-Diaz May 1, 2025

How the Earth Works digs into all that happens beneath our feet in an accessible and lively manner. The pages of this book are charged with Dr. Lucía Pérez-Díaz’s passion and expertise, as she helps us to explore the inner workings of our planet. (Credit: Ryan Cowan)

In today’s blog we’re having a chat with our very own Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz. As Lucia put it at the start of this year’s General Assembly, us scientists get to wear many “hats”, and she lives up to that statement. Besides a brilliant geoscientist, she is an incredible artist – also featured as last year’s artist in residence – and a budding press assistant! But more importantly, she is the author of ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during April!

Asmae Ourkiya April 30, 2025

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 April, we are not featuring any particular divisions, but an ensemble of all the highlights of this month instead. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Pristine oceans are a significant source of uncertainty in quanti ...[Read More]