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The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is excited to announce this year’s Science Journalism Fellowship awardees: Sophie Fessl, Rebecca Wolfer, and Antonio Alonso Rodríguez.
Are you an EGU member who wants to sharpen your mentorship skills - either as a novice seeking support or an experienced participant looking to provide it? Why not register to take part in our free mentoring training session, organised by the EGU Outreach Committee, to be held on Wednesday 28 October.
Why do storybook donkeys know about earthquakes? Discover a new show premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August exploring seismology and science through storytelling and song, funded by the EGU Special Activity Fund and with support from the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences.
The EGU, in close collaboration with the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Development, are providing an EGU member with the opportunity to visit Brussels and work alongside a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) to learn more about how science can be used to support policymaking in Europe! Apply by 1 September 2026.
EGU's Executive Director Philippe Courtial was this year honoured with the prestigious JpGU international Contribution Award at the 2026 joint JpGU-AGU scientific meeting in Chiba, Japan, in May 2026.
Hello readers! We’re thrilled to announce the new campfire event of the EGU planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division dedicated to astrobiology, habitability in the Solar System and biomining. Our guests will be Joseph McNeil (Natural History Museum of London), Adrienne Kish (National Museum of Natural History of Paris) and Luca Tonietti (University of […]
Imagine standing in the middle of an eighty-year-old Norway spruce forest in Central Europe. The canopy overhead forms a dark, emerald tomb that locks away decades of atmospheric carbon. For years, climate models and European policy frameworks treated mature forests like this as permanent carbon fortresses, heavy-duty biological vaults absorbing roughly 0.2 petagrams of carbon […]
Dr. Marta López-Saavedra (Natural Risks Assessment and Management Service (NRAMS)) represented EGU’s Science for Policy Climate Hazard and Risk External Advisory Group at the CCEC Symposium on European and Global Wildfires, Budapest, September 2026. This blog represents Marta’s reflections of the event, of Europe’s current landscape of wildfire risk, and how research can be integrated […]
