GeoNight 2021 - what a great result! Here are some first data extracted from the Geonight international website: https://www.geonight.net/ In the GeoNight week (April 3-9), the website had 63557 events (in this regard "events" are page views, downloads etc.). This is NOT the same as the number of event participants (it may be very different, because [...]
International Geodiversity Day will enable coordinated activities to take place worldwide, highlighting the importance of geodiversity. Bringing together people, communities, organisations, and countries across the world, it is expected that this will include educational, awareness raising, and public and policy engagement activities. More details can be found here: http://www.geodiversityday.org/
Anthropogenic emissions are rapidly altering Earth’s climate, pushing it toward a warmer state for which there is no historical precedent. Although no perfect analog exists for such a disruption, Earth’s history includes past climate states—“paleoclimates”— that hold lessons for the future of our warming world. In a recent paper in the journal Science (see: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6517/eaay3701?rss=1) [...]
IGU is delighted to announce that Vice-President Academician Bojie Fu has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Geographical Society. For more information please see: http://More infomation can be found：https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/2020-medal-and-award-recipients-announced/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn&utm_content=Medals+and+Awards+2020
2nd April 2020 Postponement of 34th IGC 2020 İstanbul Dear Colleagues Following the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and its current trajectory, it has become clear that it will not be possible to hold the 34th International Geographical Congress in İstanbul in August this year as originally planned. Today, the Local Organising Committee and the [...]
Geographers globally are harnessing their talents in the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic. With one third of the world's population now in some form of lockdown, there are extraordinary efforts by geographers to understand the spatial and other characteristics of this deadly virus. A group of Chinese geographers, led by former IGU Vice-President Academician [...]
The outbreaks of novel coronaviruses (COVID-19) have become increasingly severe worldwide. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. On March 18, 2020, cases of COVID-19 have now been recorded in about 160 countries/territories/areas, spread across six continents, and the number of confirmed cases outside of China has [...]
Dear Colleagues, As reported widely, coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading in China and in some other countries, and it may possibly even be poised to become a global pandemic. The virus not only endangers human life, but also seriously affects our life support systems, economic, social cultural and other activities unless effective measures are taken. [...]
IGU Vice-President Bojie FU will be awarded the 2020 Alexander von Humboldt medal at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly in May. This medal, named after Alexander von Humboldt, is awarded to scientists who have performed research in developing regions for the benefit of people and society, through which they have achieved exceptional international standing [...]
Earth Commission to Identify Risks, Guardrails, and Targets for the Planet Three of the world’s foremost scientists will co-chair a commission of leading international experts to identify risks and develop a coherent suite of scientific targets to protect Earth’s life support systems. Johan Rockström, Joyeeta Gupta, and Dahe Qin will co-chair the Earth Commission https://futureearth.org/2019/09/19/earth-commission/ [...]
