Argentina

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]

Imaggeo On Monday: Rock pyramid shaped by weathering

Christoph Mayr July 19, 2021

Rock pyramid shaped by weathering. Credit: Christoph Mayr (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The almost perfect rock pyramid in the foreground was formed by physical weathering and found in the Los Glaciares National Park in southern Argentina. The block was deposited on top of a rock surface polished by glacial erosion. The pyramidal peaks in the background are also the result of glacial erosion, albeit on a much larger scale. Description by Christoph Mayr, after the description o ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The glacier surviving climate change

Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva October 21, 2019

A Living Being Surviving the Climate Change. Credit: Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Human impacts on the climate are nowadays clearly discernible, and the changes to our climate that previously happened in geologic time scales are currently happening during the span of a human lifetime. Our planet is warming and temperature today is now more than 1°C higher than it was in the pre-industrial world and rises by about 0.15-0.2°C on average each decade. The dramatic effects of this r ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: how short-term storms can impact our landscapes

Olivia Trani September 2, 2019

Storm over the Sierra de Aconquija. Credit: Mitch D'Arcy (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In the Sierra de Aconquija, a mountain range in the southern Central Andes of Argentina, strong storms often come and go at a moment’s notice, but they can have a long-lasting impact on the Earth’s surface. The thunderstorm cell featured in this photo formed in less than half an hour, giving all those nearby only a few minutes to take cover. Mitch D’Arcy, a geomorphologist and postdoctoral researc ...[Read More]