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'Natural Hazards, Human Impact and Earth's Resources: Shaping life and Earth' will be the theme of the EGU26 Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop to be held from 4-6 May 2026. Apply for your place by Wednesday 26 November 2025.
The EGU Outreach Committee has named four Public Engagement Grant winners this year: a community air quality initiative in Ghana, an Earth-observation based educational card game for older adults in Italy, an educational animation about climate change for children in the UK and a low-cost water sensor initiative for farms and communities in the Philippines.
New research reveals airborne mercury from unregulated gold mining is contaminating African food crops directly through the leaves, not the soil, as previously thought. This urgent finding shows plants are "breathing in" a neurotoxin, raising urgent concerns for food security and human health in communities reliant on local agriculture.
A new study by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which triggered record-breaking carbon emissions and exposed the region’s growing ecological fragility despite a slowing trend in deforestation. The 2024 fires released an estimated 791 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which roughly equates to the annual emissions of Germany. This marks a sevenfold increase from the average of the previous two years.
A major international study has identified Antarctic sea ice as a critical predictor of how much heat Earth’s oceans will absorb this century, with major implications for global warming projections, sea level rise, and climate targets.
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Adrien Folch, Doctoral Researcher, GFZ-Potsdam. Email: adrien.folch@gfz.de Questions by Emma Lodes. This week, we are kickstarting a mini-series on island geomorphology! We will start with a few examples of volcanic islands. Our first is Réunion Island, part of the Réunion hotspot in the Indian Ocean. This …
Assume you are under stress. What do you do? Take a walk in the park, order your favorite takeout, have a breakdown, or internally slip along preferred slip systems and develop a fabric? The response will mostly depend on what kind of material you are, how much stress you are under, and what environmental conditions you are subjected to. For instance, someone might listen to classical music after a stressful day at work and someone else might need heavy metal. …
Hello Thanushika – welcome to GeoTalk! Before we delve deeper, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Thank you for having me! I’m Thanushika Gunatilake, an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My research connects natural and human-induced processes in the Earth’s crust; from earthquake nucleation in the central Apennines, subduction dynamics, and volcanic activity, to geothermal energy production and CO₂ storage, where fluid injections can trigger seismicity. By linking these systems, I aim to understand how fluid flow, pressure …
