diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2d71c33..9618b45 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## vX.Y.Z
+### Unreleased
+
+The `requests` package has been added as an explicit dependency of the package.
+
 ## v2.2.0
 ### 2023-11-30
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3497b1e..a8fc045 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 netCDF4 ~= 1.6.3
 numpy ~= 1.24.2
 python-cmr ~= 0.9.0
+requests ~= 2.31.0