GeoLog

Democracy from the ivory tower: A response to the Anti-autocracy Handbook from a Global South perspective

Peter Alexander October 3, 2025

Photo by by Thomas Wöhling In late October, autumn paints specks of colour in a Bavarian forest. Source: Imaggeo

Yet another global guide to saving democracy, this time titled The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding, authored by an all-star cast of academics based in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Because, clearly, when it comes to understanding the creeping rise of authoritarian regimes, who better to consult than experts who live and work in societies whe ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during September!

Asmae Ourkiya September 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. During this month, we are featuring Seismology (SM) and Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL). They are represented by the journals Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Solid Earth (SE), Climate of the Past (CP), ...[Read More]

Slavery in the geologic record – Environmental and geomorphological legacies

Cecily Ogunjobi September 22, 2025

Image by Tasha Jolley. Source: Imaggeo

From 1525, when the first human trafficking ship departed Africa, to September 22, 1862, when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, more than 300 years passed. This was enough time for the exploitation of humans and the earth to leave a permanent mark, one so profound it is now visible in the geological record. Not only did the age of chattel slavery during the Modern era shape the land and th ...[Read More]

Navigating the tides of change: A strategic foresight into a post-petroleum future by 2040

Asmae Ourkiya September 15, 2025

Image by Zbynek Burival Source: Unsplash

Today, as we mark the anniversary of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), founded in Baghdad on September 14, 1960, by five oil-producing nations: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Venezuela, and with the European Union setting ambitious climate targets for 2040 , the global energy landscape stands at a critical juncture. A century profoundly shaped by fossil fuels is ...[Read More]