From EGU, July 21, 2016  --  Researchers in Australia and the UK have found that stalagmites and stalactites can be used to help trace past wildfires that burned above the cave. Fires change the chemistry of the water above ground, and these subtle changes leave traces in the stalactites and stalagmites that form when the water drips in the caves underground.

From EGU, June 23, 2016  --  Kit DesLauriers joined forces with US scientist Matt Nolan to settle a debate of more than 50 years, while testing a new technique in a steep mountainous region.

From EGU, April 21, 2016  --  The climate of our planet is changing, and the Earth is warming up. World leaders have discussed whether we should limit the average temperature increase in our planet to 1.5°C or 2°C. There’s only half a degree of difference between these two temperature limits, but scientists have now discovered that they would each have very different consequences for our planet.

From EGU, February 29, 2016  --  Researchers Rolf Hut and Tim van Emmerik from the Netherlands and Scott Tyler from the US have now developed smart waders that still keep you dry but also collect valuable information about the water to help scientists study streams.

From EGU, November 26, 2015  --  Frank Paul, a scientist from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, has come up with a simple method to allow us to see glacier movements and changes, using the Karakoram mountain range in central Asia as an example. He created GIF animations from satellite images of the region.

From EGU, September 24, 2015  --  Emissions of carbon dioxide are only part of the climate change problem. There are other substances, called short-lived pollutants, that we should pay attention to as well, especially because they could also be important in reducing air pollution.

From EGU, 07/22/2015  --  Did you know that there is a type of ice called hair ice? It is shaped like fine, silky hairs and looks like white candy floss. It grows on the rotten branches of broad-leaf trees during humid winter nights when the air temperature drops slightly below 0°C. A 100-year old theory states that hair ice also needs something else to grow – a fungus – but, until now, no one had managed to confirm this.

From EGU, 08/18/2015  --  Stephen Cornford from the UK, Dan Martin from the US, and other researchers from around the world have used a powerful computer simulation to see how West Antarctica might look like in the future, and how much it could contribute to global sea-level rise.

From EGU  --  A team of European researchers, led by Achilleas Samaras, a Greek researcher working in Italy, has created a new computer model that looks at how parts of Italy and Greece would be affected if a tsunami was triggered after a large earthquake in the Eastern Mediterranean.

From EGU  --  Most floods are natural events that can happen when it rains a lot in a short period of time, or when there’s a storm surge (rising sea water due to stormy winds that can flood coastal areas). But a new study shows that some past floods in the Netherlands had entirely different causes.