Vote for the next EGU President, General Secretary, Division Presidents and Early Career Scientist Union-wide Representative! 3 November 2025 From now until 25 November 2025, EGU members can vote in the Autumn 2025 EGU Election. If you are a 2025 member of the Union, you should have already received an email with a personalised voting link. Don't miss out on sharing your opinion on who should lead and shape EGU, and our activities, in the coming years! Read more
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 Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
Teachers and educators: apply now for the EGU26 GIFT workshop! 27 October 2025 'Natural Hazards, Human Impact and Earth's Resources: Shaping life and Earth' will be the theme of the EGU26 Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop to be held from 4-6 May 2026. Apply for your place by Friday 28 November 2025. Read more
Call for abstracts to the EGU26 General Assembly now open! 22 October 2025 The EGU General Assembly 2026 (3 - 8 May) will bring together geoscientists from all over the world for an hybrid format meeting, combining both on-site and virtual elements for posters, orals and PICO formats, in disciplines across the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Read more
EGU Public Engagement Grants: 2025 winners announced 20 October 2025 The EGU Outreach Committee has named four Public Engagement Grant winners this year: a community air quality initiative in Ghana, an Earth-observation based educational card game for older adults in Italy, an educational animation about climate change for children in the UK and a low-cost water sensor initiative for farms and communities in the Philippines. Read more
GeoCinema at EGU26 – submit your short film now 20 October 2025 After another successful year at the General Assembly, GeoCinema is back for EGU26! Submit your Earth, planetary or space science film and it could be screened on-site and virtually for the whole conference! Deadline for submission is 5 December 2025. Read more
Invisible poison: Airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating African food crops, new study warns Press release 20 October 2025 New research reveals airborne mercury from unregulated gold mining is contaminating African food crops directly through the leaves, not the soil, as previously thought. This urgent finding shows plants are "breathing in" a neurotoxin, raising urgent concerns for food security and human health in communities reliant on local agriculture. Read more
Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation Press release 8 October 2025 A new study by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which triggered record-breaking carbon emissions and exposed the region’s growing ecological fragility despite a slowing trend in deforestation. The 2024 fires released an estimated 791 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which roughly equates to the annual emissions of Germany. This marks a sevenfold increase from the average of the previous two years. Read more
