Press releases

This page contains press releases of research presented at the EGU26 General Assembly. Journalists are requested to NOT report on any story until the individual embargo lifts. For more information or to schedule interviews with the scientists, please reach out to Media and Engagement Manager, Asmae Ourkiya (media@egu.eu) .

• When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits (7 May 2026)
• Another clue in an extinction mystery: Why one ancient ocean creature survived while another vanished (5 May 2026)
• Saudi Arabia’s water problem has a surprising solution: its own wastewater (5 May 2026)
• Saving chocolate while restoring rainforests? Rock dust boosts soil nutrition and supports farmers (5 May 2026)
• On the ground or in the atmosphere? New satellite data can help characterize and pinpoint destructive events (6 May 2026)
• New research proposes Dante’s Inferno modelled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science! (8 May 2026)