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EFGeoWeek nº 351 | 4 de abril de 2024

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Lucarini: Policymaking and geosciences - the case of Critical Raw Materials in Italy

The geoscience knowledge has improved our ability to access clean water, cultivate food, mitigate natural hazards and enhance the economy. It also plays a significant role in policymaking, often supported by an interdisciplinary approach. The sustainab...

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Vlog on the EFG Academy: What to Expect?

EFG Executive Director Glen Burridge and EFG Project Officer Tamás Miklovicz had a casual conversation about the EFG Academy at the beginning of this year.

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Press Conference at the European Parliament

The European Federation of Geologists (EFG) and the Italian National Council of Geologists (CNG) are pleased to announce an internationally relevant press conference scheduled for April 11th.

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Vlog on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on the Work of Geologists

How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) disrupt the work of geologists? EFG Executive Director Glen Burridge and Project Officer Tamás Miklovicz had a casual conversation about the impact of AI on […]

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Welcoming Krantz as our new Start-up Sponsor

As an April special, Krantz is offering a 10 % discount to the EFG community on all products in the category "field work":

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EFG engages with Nordic geological community at NGWM 2024

EFG, represented by its Swedish member Geosektionen/Naturvetarna, actively participated in the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting (NGWM) 2024 held from 10 to 12 January in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Boost Your Geoscience Career: Join Our Mentoring Programme

The EFGeoMentoring scheme is open to post-Bachelor students in any field of geosciences and geoscience professionals at all career stages.

The International Raw Materials Observatory (INTRAW) and the University of Miskolc (UNIM) organise a hybrid workshop related to the deployment of the combined extraction of CRM and energy from geothermal fluids).

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CRM-geothermal Newsletter #1

We invite you to discover our first newsletter!

By discerning correlations and interdependencies among major cations, anions, and fluid characteristics, INLECOM INNOVATION aims to unravel the complex web of factors controlling Lithium concentrations.

Our Stakeholder Board comprises experts in geothermal energy and critical raw materials and we currently have an open call to further enlarge the group as we start to implement the first engagement activities.

Geothermal energy can play a significant role in the fight against climate change. It is a renewable and sustainable heat and electricity source that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) successfully completed a pressure test for high temperature and pressure, marking a significant milestone for our operations. With the recent delivery of the CO2 pump, the CEEGS facilit...

Earlier this year, the Youth with Researchers programme kicked off with an engaging start at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería (ETSI) in Seville. This initiative aims to encourage high-schools students to delve into research projects alongside...

The European Commission has raised the alarm about Europe’s lack of self-sufficiency for substances critical to the green and digital transitions. But what makes these materials so critical?

Europe is heading into a new chapter of climate policy, paving the way for negative emissions also from the bioenergy sector, Renew Europe lawmaker Emma Wiesner told Euractiv in an interview.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) dealt a major blow to the nuclear industry at last week's International Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels when it dithered over the industry's request for more funding for nuclear projects but confirmed that investmen...

Europe's top rights court is Tuesday (9 April) to decide in three separate cases if states are doing enough in the face of global warming in rulings that could force them to do more.

French multi-energy company TotalEnergies is withdrawing from oil and gas exploration in the potential Khan Asparuh field in northern Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea, an annual report by the project's other partner, Romania's OMV Petrom, quoted by Bu...

France should continue refusing to include renewable targets in its energy-climate plan, which is due to be submitted to the European Commission in June, the country's former Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday (26 March).

The EU will need to build an additional 50 GW of nuclear power by 2050, or more than 30 reactors to meet its energy transition targets. 30 more reactors is expensive, but how expensive and why? Explanations.

Greenpeace activists disrupted the one-day Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels on Thursday (21 March), attended by some 40 delegations from across the world to explore the role of nuclear power.

Ukraine’s location and infrastructure can make it a crucial gas trading hub in east Europe. More trade gives Europe a larger and wider choice of gas suppliers, which means more security and lower prices for the continent.

On Thursday (4 April), the French opposition party Les Écologistes pushed a proposal to reduce the use of the so-called "forever chemicals" through the National Assembly, but the government favours a European solution to this environmental and health p...

Bulgaria has introduced the special gas tax on the transmission of Russian gas through Turkish Stream to punish Austria for its Schengen opposition, the leader of Bulgaria's largest party GERB Boyko Borissov announced on Wednesday (3 April).

Monthly hot streak continues in March with scientists struggling to explain the scale of recent heating.

Millions of tonnes of asbestos are being removed from buildings around the world – can this dangerous mineral be disposed of permanently? Or even be put to good use?

In the medieval Belgian city of Bruges, the urban administration has been seeking a new home and decided to move into an old hospital rather than construct a building. Elsewhere in Bruges, famous for its picture-postcard setting amid winding canals and...

The Geothermal District Heating and Cooling Days 2024 will take place between 9 and 11 September in Paris (France), a European hotspot for the use of district heating as it transitions to geothermal district heating and cooling. In Paris, 1 million inh...

The EGEC Annual Report 2023 provides a comprehensive overview of the organisation's activities for the year and highlights the significant achievements in the European geothermal sector.

The European Space Agency said Thursday (4 April) it will launch a satellite in June which will improve weather forecasting in the Arctic -- a region highly exposed to the effects of global warming.

Dams and reservoirs around the world are an underappreciated source of methane. Now start-ups want to capture that gas as a source of power.

Wetlands have flourished along the world's coastlines for thousands of years, playing valuable roles in the lives of people and wildlife. They protect the land from storm surge, stop seawater from contaminating drinking water supplies, and create habit...

Sinkholes are back in the news after a 13-year-old boy fell down a two meter deep hole in a waterlogged football field in Sydney over the weekend. The boy reportedly sank further into the hole every time he tried to push down with his feet, but was lat...

Beneath the waves, the vast majority of the ocean is unknown. Seabed 2030 is using cutting-edge technologies to fill in the bathymetric blanks and fully map the seafloor.

Distributed acoustic sensing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional seismic arrays, and building such a network on the Moon might be possible.

"March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers", goes the old British proverb. The term was even (almost) used in the Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 1300s: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote".

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked the east coast of Taiwan—the largest the island nation has seen in more than 25 years.

Climate change and rising sea levels are making lagoon barrier closures more frequent. Scientists are worried about the impacts on the ecosystem.

The International Geomagnetic Reference Field, used for navigation on mobile phones and in space, is updated every five years.

The G7 price cap on Russian oil shipments is cutting the revenue that Moscow has available to support its invasion of Ukraine, and the mechanism's effectiveness is helped by the recent actions of Indian refiners, US officials will say.

The United Arab Emirates has approached European nations including Britain to gauge their interest in the Middle Eastern state investing in their nuclear power infrastructure, according to three sources familiar with the talks.

As the 2024 expiration of the Russian gas transit contract via Ukraine approaches, the EU faces a pivotal choice, writes Sergiy Makogon.

Ukraine's daily electricity imports reached their highest this year on Tuesday (26 March) after a series of Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure caused blackouts in many regions, the energy ministry said.

The earthquake activity in New Jersey on April 5 is similar to the 3.8 magnitude earthquake that we experienced in 2023 in Buffalo, New York. In both cases, the shaking was from gravitational slip on those ancient structures.

This column studies the drivers of voter support for public adaptation, focusing on voters who vary by age, income, and beliefs about the efficacy of such policies.

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Drilling into Antarctica’s Past

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted rapidly around 8,000 years ago. Could that event foretell the future?

Recent decades have witnessed rapid changes in the Arctic climate, with warming rates surpassing global averages by three to four times. This puzzling "Warm Arctic, Cold Eurasia" climate phenomenon has profound implications, sparking scientific curiosi...

Recently, researchers have made breakthroughs in flash flood forecasting by studying how different rainfall patterns affect flash floods in China's mountainous regions. This research leads to the possibility of more accurate and localized flood warning...

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