EGU announces election results
- 26 November 2025
The full results of the Union’s autumn 2025 election are now available.
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EGU announces the 2026 awards and medals!
- 11 November 2025
The European Geosciences Union is honouring 52 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.
Congratulations to EGU’s 2025 Science Journalism Fellows!
- 30 October 2025
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is excited to announce this year’s Science Journalism Fellowship awardees: Tim Hornyak, Marta Abbà, and Alejandro Munoz
EGU creates new Emergency Support policy, to provide assistance to any researcher globally affected by disaster, crisis or conflict.
- 29 October 2025
Following a vote by EGU’s volunteer Council, the EGU has adopted a new comprehensive emergency support policy that will provide greater access to all EGU's scientific tools, resources and opportunities to any researcher in the Earth, planetary and spaces sciences, anywhere in the world, who is impacted by disaster, crisis or conflict.
Register now for the EGU26 Peer Support programme!
- 28 October 2025
Applications are now open for experienced attendees to apply to be a part of the EGU26 Peer Support programme. The Peer Support programme, formerly called the mentoring scheme, helps experienced attendees of the General Assembly to facilitate novice attendees in getting the most out of their experience during the week of the meeting. Submit your application by 31 March 2026.
Latest posts from EGU blogs
The prize that failed forward: How a 100,000-franc quest for aliens funded a century of astronomy
- GeoLog – EGU official blog
- posted 8 hours ago
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 successfully communicate with a celestial body and receive a response. But there was a catch: communication with the …
Cratons: Building Blocks of Continents and their Economic Importance
- Geodynamics
- posted 9 hours ago
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 processes. Interestingly, edges of the cratonic lithosphere are also known to host an orchestra of critical …
Speaking Up for the Cryosphere at COP30
- Cryospheric Sciences
- posted 2 days ago
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 in many ways like a black box. Multiple negotiation tracks are running in parallel …