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GeoLog

Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

June 12, 2026
Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

Pride month arrives this year against a backdrop of institutional irony. In the United States, federal research funding has been thoroughly weaponised and forced a massive scientific brain drain across the Atlantic. In Europe, a multi-million-euro effort to capture that exiled talent is underway, even as Europe’s own domestic politics fracture along the exact same ideological fault lines. Fo ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

The Arctic’s Blind Spot: Why Satellites Struggle Where Ice Meets the Coast

June 12, 2026
The Arctic’s Blind Spot: Why Satellites Struggle Where Ice Meets the Coast

The first time I stood on sea ice, I could not tell which direction the coast was. A community member named Bryan could. That gap in situational awareness, between what a trained remote sensing scientist could read from the landscape and what a local hunter understood instinctively, turned out to mirror almost exactly the gap in our satellite data: ICESat-2 produces reliable freeboard across the c ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Geodesy Cartoons – A Creative Tool for Outreach and Education

June 12, 2026
The Geodetic Tailor (cropped). Cartoon by Eda Uzunoglu, distributed by geodesy.science/cartoon. CC BY.

Geodesy is fundamental to understanding our dynamic planet. From monitoring sea-level rise and glacier melt to maintaining precise terrestrial reference frames for GNSS and Earth observation, geodesy provides the scientific backbone for many disciplines represented within the EGU and beyond. Despite its importance, geodesy often remains invisible outside the scientific community. Even within geosc ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

HydroTalks podcast: Introducing Ilias Pechlivanidis, the HS Division President-elect

June 11, 2026
HydroTalks podcast: Introducing Ilias Pechlivanidis, the HS Division President-elect

For this  episode of HydroTalks, we’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Ilias Pechlivanidis, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor (Docent) in hydrology and water resources at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), and Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University. He is currently the Vice President of the EGU Hydrological Sciences Division and will serve as Division President for th ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

(Almost) everything wrong with: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

and June 10, 2026
(Almost) everything wrong with: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

 Spoiler warning!   Have you ever watched a science fiction movie and thought, huh, I wonder if that is actually possible? Now, I hope by the time the dinosaurs turned up during this film, that this transient thought had departed from your mind, but to satisfy the idle curiosity of those who wondered this during Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and perhaps even impart some geodynamical les ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Melting Glaciers Move Lithospheric Plates and Fluctuate Mid-ocean Ridges’ Spreading

and June 3, 2026
Melting Glaciers Move Lithospheric Plates and Fluctuate Mid-ocean Ridges’ Spreading

The rise and fall of massive ice sheets have shaped Earth’s surface for millions of years, but their influence may extend far deeper than previously recognized. This week in News & Views, Tao Yuan, a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, explores how glacial cycles can alter lithospheric plate motions and even modulate the spreading of mid-ocean ridges. The ongoing melting of glac ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

and June 2, 2026
Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

Editor’s note: While this article explores the benefits of Diamond Open Access and critiques commercial, for-profit publishing structures, it is important to note that the European Geosciences Union (EGU) operates on a community-led, transparent, and not-for-profit Open Access model. EGU journals use Article Processing Charges (APCs) strictly to cover publishing costs and support the scientific co ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Help us celebrate excellence in science journalism: Time for nominations for the 2027 EGU Angela Croome Award!

June 2, 2026
Help us celebrate excellence in science journalism: Time for nominations for the 2027 EGU Angela Croome Award!

What good is groundbreaking Earth and space science if it never breaks through the laboratory walls and digital libraries? Without skilled journalists, our peer-reviewed papers risk gathering digital dust, and remain isolated from the public policy and societal awareness they are meant to inform. This is why we need science journalists, as they have the skills to take complex scientific results an ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during May!

May 29, 2026
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during May!

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. For May, we are not featuring any particular divisions, but an ensemble of all the highlights of this month instead. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Beyond discrete stratocumulus regimes: a ternary continuum of morph ...[Read More]

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Biogeosciences

The beauty of Soil!

and May 29, 2026
The beauty of Soil!

The Life Beneath Our Feet Where would we be without healthy soil? A lot of our research live would be in turmoil I’m here today to spread some soil appreciation, Which may require some thought transformation. Soil Is the base of our beautiful landscapes, Often where we go for some restorative escapes, Some key reasons to save soils from destruction They support 95% of global food production, And a ...[Read More]