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Weekly Issue | 23 May 2023. A weekly news compilation by the European Federation of Geologists

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Weekly Issue | 23 May 2023

A weekly news compilation by the European Federation of Geologists

EFG

Popkin: A US Perspective on Soil Pollution: Observations, Conclusions, and Recommendati...

Soil is our gateway to civilization. We depend on our soil for vegetation, habitats, landscape, food, fiber, animal feed, wildlife, water and air quality, employment, cultural engagement, and our civilization’s construction and physical construction.

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New EFG President David Govoni

The election for the EFG’s new President-elect was held in November 2022 during the 81st Council Meeting in Brussels. The National Associations delegates cast their votes electronically and David Govoni from the Italian National Council of Geologists...

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EFG Webinar: Multiple target horizon exploration for the implementation of an integrate...

On 6 June 2023, the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) is organising the webinar ‘Multiple target horizon exploration for the implementation of an integrated geothermal system for Göttingen, Germany‘. The event is scheduled for 15:00 – 16:00 CEST ...

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Bring in your geoscience expertise at the European level: Join the EFG Panels of Expert...

The EFG’s Panels of Experts offer a platform encouraging collaboration between professionals from different European countries working in the same field of geosciences.

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EFG Webinar on the mineral resources of the Moon (30 May 2023)

The presenter of the webinar will be Dr Renaud Merle, a Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. The host of the session will be EFG Secretary General Magnus Johansson.

eurogeologists.eu

On May 5th, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Kenya as part of his tour of Africa. During his visit, he met with Lydia Olaka, a CRM-geothermal project partner from the University of Nairobi.

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Introducing the SUMEX podcast!

Would you like to gain new insights into sustainable management in extractives and deepen your knowledge in this field? Join moderator Tony Hand in our podcast “Sustainable Management in the Extractive Sector: Navigating Challenges and Forging New Path...

sumexproject.eu

Two articles featuring the research of the REFLECT project have been published in issue 54 of the biannual Diamond Open Access publication, the European Geologist. Issue number 54 is entitled ‘Geothermal energy – A geological contribution to the energy...

reflect-h2020.eu

Fluid data are collected from more than 20 European countries. In the platform, the layers provide point feature information presented on a base map, including geography, geology and depth range, as well as physical, chemical and microbial properties o...

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EFG endorses Mission Soil Manifesto

The Manifesto aims to gather regional and local policy-makers, as well as all interested stakeholders and citizens into a dynamic community engaged around the topic of soil health.

eurogeologists.eu

After Christchurch earthquakes, the engineering community was alarmed at the performance failures of modern buildings. One design initiative to come from the destruction and loss in New Zealand was to build structures with functional recovery in mind.

preventionweb.net

As EU member states prepare to submit their revised National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) to the European Commission on 30 June, they must pay greater attention to energy efficiency, writes Monica Frassoni.

euractiv.com

The European Parliament’s lead negotiator for reforming Europe’s power market has caused concern by proposing the return of a controversial revenue cap in times of crisis for power generators with cheap production costs, like renewables and nuclear.

euractiv.com

Formal approval of the EU's renewable energy directive has been postponed following a last-minute objection by Paris, which wants further "guarantees" on low-carbon hydrogen derived from nuclear power.

euractiv.com

France will take part in the next gathering of the "renewable friendly" group of countries, the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said at a meeting of the "nuclear alliance" on Tuesday (16 May), indicating the readiness of Paris t...

euractiv.com

A bill to speed up the construction of new nuclear reactors was approved by the French parliament on Tuesday (16 May), with the government hailing it as an environmental step forward.

euractiv.com

The news that Commission vice president Margrethe Vestager will temporarily take over the innovation and research portfolio following the departure of commissioner Mariya Gabriel has been met with mixed feelings, with one of the leading voices for rese...

sciencebusiness.net

Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño event, according to a new update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

preventionweb.net

Two technology providers in Finland are developing a solution to selectively recover metals from mining-impacted waters.

iom3.org

Sholes Glacier snowcover extent change from 8-8-2022 to 10-17-2022. Snowcover declined from 98% of glacier to 10% of glacier during this period. Black dots are measurement sites, yellow dots the transient snowline, purple contour= 1.5 m, green contour=...

agu.org

Planet has been able to collect a set of SkySat images of the Lake Kivu landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

agu.org

Limited accuracy and transparency of national greenhouse gas emission inventories are curbing climate action, especially in the agriculture and land use sector.

phys.org

The Apollo programme took humanity to the Moon but also changed the face of technology back here on Earth.

bbc.com

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Friday in the far Pacific created small tsunami waves in Vanuatu.

phys.org

Florida State University researchers have analyzed the carbon exported from surface waters of the California Current Ecosystem—the first-ever study to quantify the total carbon sequestration for a region of the ocean.

phys.org

The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) contribute largely to global mean sea level (GMSL) changes, though the seas surrounding the Antarctic like the Bellinghausen-Amundsen Seas and the Indian Ocean sector are seeing significantly ...

phys.org

French lawmakers have voted to ban smoking in all forests and woods during the fire season, part of a series of proposed measures to tackle growing destruction and dangers from climate change-related blazes.

phys.org

Scientists have discovered the cause of giant underwater landslides in Antarctica, which they believe could have generated tsunami waves that stretched across the Southern Ocean.

phys.org

A few weeks ago, at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly EGU23, a group of researchers from different disciplines briefed the media about the impact of war on the oceans, sands, and people. Among them, Florian Ulrich Jehn’s presentation stoo...

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