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.
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BG books for the winter holidays – Editorial picks
- Biogeosciences
- posted 16 hours ago
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 period by providing a snapshot of a typical ecosystem, illustrating its plants, animals, landscapes, unique features and evolutionary milestones. Even …
EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – 15th Edition
- Geodesy
- posted 1 day ago
We are excited to announce the 15th edition of Geodesy Campfire – Share Your Research in November. The Geodesy EGU Campfire Events “Share Your Research” give (early career) researchers the chance to talk about their work. We have two exciting talks by our guest speakers, Koen Haakman and Aleksander Partyka. Below, you can find the details of the topics awaiting us. We will have time to network after the presentations. Please join us on Zoom on 15th January 2026 from …
Geomythology. Craitbul journey through the Newer Volcanics in SE Australia
- Tectonics and Structural Geology
- posted 2 days ago
The Aboriginals Australians had and hopefully will continue to have an important oral tradition, especially related to impacts, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes. This time, I would like to set our new narrative in southeast Australia, where the Booandik people tell a story suggesting how their ancestors witnessed and interpreted volcanic activity in the Mount Gambier area. The story, reported by the Scottish missionary Mrs. James Smith (Fig. 1) in her book The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: a sketch …