In February 2025, the UNESCO hosted UN Secretariat for the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD; 2024-2033) recognized DDE as a Programme of the Decade.

The IUGS communique on DDE issued in early April 2025 resulted from the presentation of the DDE annual report to the IUGS-EC Open Session on 18 March 2025, held at the Geological Society of France, and another meeting between IUGS and DDE Leaders on 21 March 2025 in Paris.

Dear Colleagues, partners, and friends of the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) community,

The Chairs of the DDE Governing Council (GC), Prof. Harvey Thorleifson, and the Executive Committee (EC), Prof. Qiuming Cheng, are hosting 4 Open Forum discussions, on 7, 14, 21 and 28 May 2025.

As the core infrastructure of the DDE Big Science Program, the DDE Platform team showcased its advanced data-integration and intelligent analysis capabilities at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly from April 27 to May 2. During the Assembly, the Platform secured data-sharing intentions from nearly 20 international research institutions, further reinforcing its ongoing efforts to create a “data–talent–technology” oriented global partnership network.