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Is How We View the Atmosphere Too Dry?

Many people think about air as a fixed mix of gases like nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide (CO2). But the main reason the composition of air changes—water vapour—tends to get overlooked. Scientists often remove it from atmospheric samples before analysing air composition, and this convenient habit can make us forget something surprising: water vapour isn’t just “in” the air; it is air, and when it flourishes, it changes everything. On hot, humid days, and in tropical environments, water vapour can …

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Writing for the BG blog

Thank you for your interest in writing for the Biogeoscience Blog! The BG blog is created for and by EGU’s biogeoscience community. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any ideas, feedback or questions. What we publish Broadly speaking anyone can write for the blog and all ideas are welcome. Since the main readership of the blog are EGU members, our focus is on content that is interesting to as much of our community as possible, especially early career …

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25 years of Wikipedia: The only thing more layered than the Grand Canyon!

ce year was 2001. A time before smartphones, before social media took over, and back when scrolling usually involved a physical microfilm reader at the library. On January 15 of that year, something revolutionary erupted onto the scene: Wikipedia was launched. As we celebrate its 25th anniversary, it’s time we come clean. While we might tell our professors we spent all night elbow-deep in the primary literature of the Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences journal, many of us actually …

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