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There is hope for conservationists in the Amazon: if you protect carbon-rich forests, you can protect the tree biodiversity at the same time.

The Green Team Pharmacy is making their education more sustainable, so far they've made one lab practical sustainable. What else is on the agenda?

Future Food Utrecht and AMPED/Local2Local will work together on the transition to local food and a regional food system, heritage and landscape, biodiversity and climate adaptation.

On 12 May, the final exams start. Alice Veldkamp researched escape rooms in education - can an escape room help you pass your final exams?

Coastal protection in Suriname has great natural variations but will become a challenge in the future due to human intervention.

The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) has awarded this year’s Max Planck Frontier Award to Prof. Bert Weckhuysen.

A new perspective in Nature Sustainability suggests games can help us move past sustainability deadlocks and make change happen.

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The evening was a great success. We spoke with initiator Sahra Farah about the event and how it came to be. Read the short interview here.

Call for abstracts “Non-use measures for global goods and commons in international law”, workshop 8-9 May 2023: marine life, Antarctica, high seas and outer-space.

Over the past few decades, tiny pieces of plastic have found their way, via the air, to remote places on earth, IMAU researchers conclude.

From the academic year 2022-2023, all new degree students will begin their studies at ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� College Utrecht in the Fall semester. Read here how the College came to this decision.

What can the two learn from each other? To find out, Lund’s ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Board paid Utrecht a two day visit at the end of April.

Water and drought experts Marc Bierkens and Niko Wanders start the World Water Map project, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society.

Out of the seven Gravitation grants, two are granted to projects led by Utrecht Faculty of Science researchers: Prof. Anna Akhmanova (cell biology) and Prof. Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (nanomaterials).

Sharing practices and innovative ideas on how to integrate urban Nature Based Solutions (NBS) into Dutch cities, May 31st in Utrecht.

Debbie Jaarsma, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, receives an honorary doctorate from the Vetsuisse Faculty of the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Zurich.

Een consortium van de Universiteit Utrecht, Hydrologic, KWR en het KNMI onderzoekt in een deelproject de effecten van veranderingen in landgebruik en klimaat op de grondwaterstanden in Nederland.

For his insight and commitment in the broad application of his knowledge of biology and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, René Kwant was awarded royal honours on 26 April 2022.

Henk Dijkstra is receiving a European grant of 2.5 million euros for research on the weakening of the Warm Gulf Stream.

Claudia Wieners opinion about Solar Geoengineering

SARS-CoV-2 virus particles can resist high physical forces. This determines partly their success, according to a publication of the new UU-professor Jan Lipfert in PNAS.

Action is needed towards green water change through climate change, deforestation and soil degradation in order to reduce Earth system risks

On 1 July 2021, our colleague Leo Maas officially retired. Although Leo will continue to come to the IMAU, this landmark offers a great opportunity to look back at his impressive academic career.

On 13 March, an IMAU team of five cyclists gathered at the ice skating hall in Leeuwarden, to start the 200-kilometer-long challenge of the famous ice-skating tour ‘Elfstedentocht’ (Eleven City Tour).