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Geert Buelens talks to Nieuwsuur and De Wereld Vandaag about the new literary genre climate fiction.

Niki Frantzeskaki will be appointed as full professor with a chair in Regional and Metropolitan Governance and Planning on 1 January 2022.

The organisation of the 'Regulating Big Tech'-workshop during the Ius Commune conference is looking for abstracts.

Hans van Meerten will be a visiting professor at the China ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Political Science and Law for two months and will teach international pension law.

Scientists and policy makers are calling to frame climate change as an emergency, to make quick large-scale political decisions. But is this a good strategy?

Nadine Smit, researcher at the Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, has discovered new chemical tracers to investigate the presence of terrestrial bacteria that consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane.

The report by Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will help planners and lawyers to strengthen residential areas to adapt to heat stress, flooding and drought.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Kees van den Bos conclude that copycat behaviour in terrorist attacks can be (partially) prevented

New research published today by palaeo-ecologist Dr Timme H. Donders may provide tools for forest management to increase forest resilience to future climate change.

The EU Horizon 2020 project NOVAMIGRA has published its final report.

On 30 July 2021, historian Albert van der Zeijden passed away at the age of 64.

There's a well-known Dutch saying 'The rain that falls today, will not fall tomorrow'. But can you also say 'What falls today, will not fall next week'?

'COVID-19: Expert visions on the consequences for society and policy' by the WRR and KNAW outlines important policy challenges for the Netherlands.

The English Wikipedia now has a large number of articles on oceanography after 40 students of Dynamic Oceanography each wrote an article for the platform.

Paleontologists revised the description a Patagosaurus fossil that was discovered in the 1970s. What were they able to research now, that wasn't possible before?

Researchers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, UMC Utrecht and TNO examined how people interpret and assess the allergen information on labels.

On 5 July, De Gruyter published the 'Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives', co-edited by Dan Hassler-Forest.

The Transformative Policing team of the Contesting Governance Platform, Tessa Diphoorn, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Luuk Slooter, just published a new blog on oppressive policing on Human Rights Here.

Anthropogenic forces can have a 6-7 times larger impact on salt intrusion than climate change and sea level rise.

Rachell Gillett published a piece on the racism surrounding last week's UEFA Euro 2020 final in The Conversation.

Hannah van Wikselaar and Eva Soeterik, two Gender Studies master students, research how students experience sex/gender registration practices at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Fourteen Utrecht-based researchers each receive an NWO Vidi scholarship of 800,000 euros. The laureates are going to use this money to develop their own, renewing research projects.

It’s like using one stone to kill three birds, or actually four: the capture of CO2 from the oceans

During the Junior corona lecture on 12 July, Ton de Boer, Patricia Bruijning and Naomi van Steenbergen answered high school students’ questions about the corona vaccine.

Air quality measurements at street level show that Amsterdam streets with heavy traffic contain up to three times more harmful particles than quieter neighborhoods with fewer cars.