AGU News U.S. Climate Collection collaboration launches AGU and the American Meteorological Society are accepting proposals for a joint special collection of research articles called the U.S. Climate Collection: Informing Assessment of Risks and Solutions. Forged in the wake of the dismissal of the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA) authors, the collection serves to lay the […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News AGU prevails in case for probationary federal employees In a blistering decision last Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration and the Office of Personnel Management acted illegally when it fired tens of thousands of probationary federal employees at NOAA, NSF, and other agencies “for cause” in February. AGU joined a […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Register for AGU’s 2025 Annual Meeting in New Orleans Press registration is open for AGU25 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and online 15 to 19 December 2025 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Staff, freelance, and student journalists are eligible to apply for complimentary press registration through the end of the […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Register for Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, 22-27 February 2026 Staff, freelance and student journalists, press officers and institutional writers are eligible to apply for complimentary press registration. Book conference hotels early! [media advisory][OSM26 Press][eligibility guidelines] Featured Research Martian mud volcanoes may have provided a habitable home for microbes In the northern lowlands […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Register for Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, 22-27 February 2026 Staff, freelance and student journalists, press officers and institutional writers are eligible to apply for complimentary press registration. Book conference hotels early! [media advisory][OSM26 Press][eligibility guidelines] Featured Research Stronger windstorms ahead in warming northern Europe In 1999 Cyclone Anatol hit northern Europe with […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Editorial: The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America Editors-in-chief of AGU’s journals authored an editorial this week in AGU Advances arguing why independent, transparent science — not politically controlled “gold standards”—must guide U.S. scientific scholarship. Framed against the Trump Administration’s “Restoring Gold Standard Science” executive order, the editorial explains how placing enforcement in […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Press registration open for 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting Full time reporters and press officers are invited to attend, free of charge, the Oceans Sciences Meeting, hosted by AGU, The Oceanography Society and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography in Glasgow, Scotland, 22-27 February 2026.[OSM26 press information][eligibility] Featured Research Replacing […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Press registration open for 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting Full time reporters and press officers are invited to attend, free of charge, the Oceans Sciences Meeting, hosted by AGU, The Oceanography Society and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography in Glasgow, Scotland, 22-27 February 2026. [OSM26 press information][eligibility] Featured Research As […]| AGU Newsroom
AGU News Save the date for AGU25 in New Orleans, 15-19 December Registration for AGU’s 2025 annual meeting will open in late August. Full-time journalists and press officers can attend free of charge. [AGU25] AGU Wins Power of Associations Gold Award for promoting ethics in climate intervention In October 2024, AGU published the Ethical Framework […]| AGU Newsroom
Featured Research Ocean will hold onto carbon long after greenhouse gas levels drop The ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, acting as a carbon sink for anthropogenic emissions. If efforts to control emissions and remove legacy carbon from the air are successful, the ocean will become a carbon source, outgassing stored carbon dioxide back […]| AGU Newsroom
Featured Research Amazonian peatland switched from being a carbon absorber to entirely carbon neutral Peatlands play an important role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide. Researchers found the Amazonian peatland suffered from lowered water levels that left the tops of the peat exposed and allowed them to decompose faster. Prolonged periods of cloudless […]| AGU Newsroom