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Cyclone Idai disaster: European agencies foresee climate danger but poor countries stumble.

January 22, 2021
Cyclone Idai disaster: European agencies foresee climate danger but poor countries stumble.
Summer on the Northern Hemisphere. Credit: Maximilian Reuter (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Cyclone Idai, which was labelled by the UN as possibly the worst climate calamity to ever hit the Southern Hemisphere, pounded Beira, Mozambique, in March 2019. The European Space Agency images revealed that a huge new inland ´lake´ measuring about 80 miles by 15 miles, an area the size of the European state of Luxembourg, had suddenly been created by  the catastrophe. However, millions of residen ...[Read More]

Open Access publishing and Open Science at conferences: what do you need to know?

January 8, 2021
Open Access publishing and Open Science at conferences: what do you need to know?

Earlier this week EGU’s Policy Officer, Chloe Hill was lucky enough to sit down with one of the many advocates for Open Access publishing on EGU’s Publications Committee: Ulrich Pöschl. Whilst all the members of our Publications Committee are fully committed to making EGU’s journals accessible and open, Ulrich has a unique perspective on this, as he is also the initiator and co-c ...[Read More]

How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic

, and November 25, 2020
How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic
Photograph of Formula Baby championship taken by Olivier Pourret.

As Hedding et al. (2020) indicate, it is “not business as usual” for higher education across the globe. There are many testimonies by scientists who are struggling to work while their children are stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic (Langin, 2020). Indeed, it is very complex to stay at home to raise and home-school kids and remain productive as an academic while living through a pandemic ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: presentation material format and copyright questions

April 10, 2020
#shareEGU20: presentation material format and copyright questions
Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

Due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, EGU has made the decision to cancel this year’s physical General Assembly in Vienna and instead offer a partial alternative meeting online, called #shareEGU20. Over the next few weeks in the run up to #shareEGU20, which will be held from the 4 – 8 May 2020, we will be posting regular updates and information about how to get involved, what EGU ca ...[Read More]