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GeoLog

Discover resources, research, training and more in EGU’s 2025 Webinars Roundup!

December 19, 2025
Text reads: EGU Webinars Roundup 2026: resources, research, training.

The European Geosciences Union hosts a busy digital programme throughout the year, from seminar-style Campfire events with online networking to free, half-day workshops funded by EGU and organised by our volunteer Committees. Sitting between the two are our webinars: free, community-driven events which are presented live with the recording published later on the EGU Youtube channel. Webinars are a ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

December 19, 2025
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

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 Atmospheric Sciences (AS), Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI), and Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS). They are represented by the journals Geoscientific Model Deve ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Taking time off in the academic world – Why it’s hard and how to do It

and December 19, 2025
Taking time off in the academic world – Why it’s hard and how to do It

Several major holiday periods are coming up in the next months, and for many people this means taking some time off. But for academics, stepping away from work can be very difficult. At EGU25, we explored this challenge in a short course organized by the EGU “Life-Career Wellness” working group, where scientists shared their experiences (and strategies). In this post, we summarize the main points ...[Read More]

SSP
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Insight into paleo-environmental and -climatic conditions during the Pleistocene period in Kashmir – An understudied and poorly understood puzzle-piece in the interaction-sphere of the Indian Monsoon and Westerly climate-systems

and December 19, 2025
Insight into paleo-environmental and -climatic conditions during the Pleistocene period in Kashmir – An understudied and poorly understood puzzle-piece in the interaction-sphere of the Indian Monsoon and Westerly climate-systems

The Indian subcontinent is situated in Southern Asia, where it projects southwards from the Himalayas into the Indian Ocean. Along the northern border of this subcontinent, the Himalayas – home to the earth’s highest mountains on land – stretch with a length of ~2500 km and a width of 300 km. The stunning mountain ranges of the Himalayas provide a considerable physical barrier for air masses from/ ...[Read More]

OS
Ocean Sciences

Meet Arianna, the New Voice as ECS OS Representative!

December 18, 2025
Meet Arianna, the New Voice as ECS OS Representative!

Meet the new Early Career Scientist (ECS) Representative for the Ocean Sciences (OS) division: Arianna Olivelli! In this role, she is dedicated to connecting, supporting, and advocating for early career ocean researchers across Europe and beyond. We sat down with Arianna to hear about her journey, her vision for the OS ECS community, and how she is empowering the next generation of ocean scientist ...[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Berlin – the city of unusual geology

December 18, 2025
Berlin – the city of unusual geology

“There is no geology here – just dirt!” or “It’s only a large sandbox.” are two common narratives told about the geology of the Berlin region. But is that true? Is there really nothing interesting to find and see for a geologist in the German capital? Let’s start digging! The hard rock One narrative is definitely true, Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin, like entire northern Germany, is a l ...[Read More]

GeoLog

The prize that failed forward: How a 100,000-franc quest for aliens funded a century of astronomy

December 17, 2025
The prize that failed forward: How a 100,000-franc quest for aliens funded a century of astronomy

Today, 17 December, marks 125 years since the formal announcement of one of the most eccentric, ambitious, and ultimately consequential prizes in the history of science: the Prix Pierre Guzman. Announced by the French Académie des Sciences in December 1900, the award promised 100,000 francs, which is the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars today, to the first person who could successful ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

Cratons: building blocks of continents and their economic importance

, and December 17, 2025
Cratons: building blocks of continents and their economic importance

The 4.5 billion years of geologic evolution has shaped the tectonic processes in Earth we see today. Over the span of time, Earth has changed from being a magma ocean to a tectonically active planet, by transitioning through different tectonic regimes.  A silent witness of this journey have been cratons which have survived for billions of years. Therefore cratons preserve clues of past tectonic pr ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Speaking Up for the Cryosphere at COP30

December 15, 2025
Speaking Up for the Cryosphere at COP30

During the climate negotiations at COP30, the global importance of a warming cryosphere was stressed in various formats. The UNFCCC Conference of Parties (this year’s COP30) marks the yearly global climate negotiations which formed the aim to limit global warming to well below 2 °C (the 1.5 °C target) with the Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015. These huge conferences of ten thousands of people feel ...[Read More]

BG
Biogeosciences

BG books for the winter holidays – Editorial picks

, , and December 13, 2025
BG books for the winter holidays – Editorial picks

It’s been quite the year! Before we say goodbye to 2025 and send our readers into a well-deserved holiday, our 2025-2026 editorial team shares some of their favorite Biogeoscience-themed books. Lucia S. Layritz – Editor-in-chief recommends Otherlands by Thomas Halliday This book takes you on a journey through Earth’s ancient ecologies. Each chapter tells a story about a past geological perio ...[Read More]