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Early Career Scientists step into the role of European policymakers at the first MEP4ECS event
  • 21 September 2026

This summer the first ever Model European Parliament for Early Career Scientists (MEP4ECS) event took place in Brussels, involving Early Career Scientists from across Europe. Funded by EGU through the Special Activtiy Fund and organised by Fondazione ISSNOVA with the collaboration of Rotary Club Global ROOTS, the event gave participants the chance to learn about European policymaking on the theme of 'the role of science in supporting European climate change adaptation policy'. Read more about the experience here!

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The Science Storyteller brings seismology to the Edinburgh Fringe!
  • Press release
  • 22 July 2026

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.

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Which rain and temperature should drive your model? A guide to select daily forcing datasets , with application to northern Italy

If you want to run a hydrological model anywhere, the first question is which meteorological forcing to use. For the Po basin, or anywhere in northern Italy, there are today at least a dozen gridded products, regional and European, built from different meteorological networks, with different methods and for different purposes. I reviewed them from […]

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Cooling glaciers in a warming world?

Small glaciers are often written off: too small to matter, and soon gone anyway. Yet recent disasters in the Alps show that they can still pose a threat. And some are doing something rather unexpected: while the climate warms, the ice inside them has turned cold. We drilled into six small Swiss glaciers to find […]

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