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The means we use to reduce the carbon footprint result in a gold rush for minerals. A focus on a material footprint could connect the climate issue to resource extraction and justice issues, four UU scholars argue.

Are leased products less well looked after than their owned counterparts? Researchers reveal this is often the case and work with designers to come up business model solutions to challenge this.

What is the best way to develop hydropower?

Last weekend, I cried at an academic conference. It’s not normal for me. I look back with part gratitude, part embarrassment. The experience has triggered me to transform how I carry myself in professional spaces. It started off pretty run-of-the-mill…

Report of the student symposium on 8 May, focusing on the North Sea Agreement and three major transitions (nature, food, energy) taking place there.

In block 1 and 2 of the 2024-2025 academic year, UU students can register for online courses at one of the CHARM-EU partner institutions.

Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown.

Unless the ICC reconsidered the mental element requirements for the existing crimes, the prosecution of people ‘most responsible’ for environmental harms would be (to put it mildly) an uphill struggle.

On 16 February 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr Karim Khan, launched a public consultation to advance accountability for environmental crimes.

The next step in climate change research thanks to NWO Summit grant: climate feedbacks and their interference with present-day climate change

Introducing: The Sustainability Fund. A central fund that enables employees and students of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ to seek funds for establishing green initiatives and living labs on campus, encouraging transdisciplinary approaches to conquer sustainability challenges.

Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global South.

PtS launched a special Award for those research projects combining the strengths of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ research with the agendas of external stakeholders for the benefit of a sustainable future for all. Submit a project now!

The world’s seaweed forests transport 56 million tonnes of carbon (between 10 to 170 million tonnes) to deep ocean sinks each year.

From 22 May until 21 June, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and HU ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Applied Sciences invite you to go outside to discover and register as many species as possible during the BioBlitz 2024.

Perhaps it requires a radically different approach to education to empower students to become ‘agents of change’? Blog by Lisette van Beek

Ecological grief shows that ecocide is not just an environmental issue but also a psychological one.

With this knowledge we can better map the consequences of current global warming in the North Sea area.

The Contesting Governance Platform statement on police violence against protesting students

On 17 May, the first Climate Exam will take place in Utrecht.

This workshop will introduce you to the butterfly in one hour.

This workshop will introduce you to the butterfly in one hour.

In a highly visionary Nature article, two chemists from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ present a roadmap in which oil refineries could be reinvented to be completely fossil-free. Processes will be electrified if possible, and raw materials will change to CO2, agricultural and municipal waste.

Ecocide in Indigenous conceptualizations is not only one crime, but it comprises multiple crimes simultaneously.

[Interview] Kees Klein Goldewijk about the HYDE database and the benefits of the FAIR Research IT Innovation Fund for his project.