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Imaggeo On Monday: The Virgin Forest of Arasbârân

Roshanak Tootoonchi September 13, 2021

The Virgin Forest of Arasbârân. Credit: Roshanak Tootoonchi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This photo was taken standing in the middle of Arasbârân Forest, a beautiful virgin forest in Kaleybar, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. In Autumn and Spring, it gets extremely rainy around this area, thus begins the flowing of ephemeral streams, like the one that is captured in this photo. Located between the Caspian Sea, Aras River and the Mediterranean region, this forest has got exceptional con ...[Read More]

From ‘hippies’ to “How dare you!” and beyond..

Arindam Roy September 10, 2021

Credit: Arindam Roy

In 1971 a group of environmental activists set sail from Canada to protest nuclear testing. With this journey the organization Greenpeace was born. 50 years old this year, Greenpeace and other organizations like it have seen environmental concerns move from the fringe to the mainstream, and eventually evolve into climate change activism. In 2009, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: The evolution of a cloud during a day

Christoph Mayr September 6, 2021

The evolution of a cloud during a day. Credit: Christoph Mayr(distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

A cloud in the lee of the Patagonian Andes observed during an entire day. The shape of the cloud changed from lenticular to whirl- and funnel-shaped. Description by Christoph Mayr, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Konstantinos Kourtidis also added a comment to the image, explaining more about how lenticular clouds like these can form: “That’s a great photo sequence. The ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

Hazel Gibson August 31, 2021

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For August, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geodesy (G), Geodynamics (GD) and Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Geoscien ...[Read More]