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Douwe van Hinsbergen and Marjolein Naudé of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� take the cycling audience on their journey through the landscape and the geological history of the Tour de France

Lorena De Vita is the recipient of the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation.

Researchers from Nanjing universities and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� made the first sink or source map that can be used when deciding where to invest in blue carbon.

Climate researcher Detlef van Vuuren has been awarded the Spinoza Prize for his scientific work, the highest honour in Dutch science.

Academics, frustrated by limited impact on the ecological crisis, are turning to scholar-activism. Embracing this could foster new knowledge, networks, and social change. Blog by Lisette van Beek

How do we make Utrecht Science Park more beautiful, more sustainable and greener? That was the key question in the sustainable public competition that took place from March to May 2024. Susanne Vermeulen is the winner with her idea for multifunctional flower hills.

A dedicated team at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� aims to reestablish twenty icon species by 2035, including badgers, little owls, roe deer, and weatherfishes.

The European Forest Institute has awarded €140,000 to the Research & Education Hub Utrechtse Heuvelrug for research into climate-smart forest management on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug.

As of May 2024, and after several years of successful interdisciplinary collaboration, the Special Interest Group (SIG) Sensors has ceased to exist.

In the biodiversity-rich Banggai archipelago, researchers are enhancing the conservation options for indigenous communities, whilst bridging critical gaps in governance.

Within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the National Ocean Decade Committee has been established, as a link between the UN organisation and the national network of public and private stakeholders.

Many students are deeply concerned about climate change and want to take action. Lecturers from various faculties will help them with this, thanks to a grant from the Utrecht Education Incentive Fund.

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming conference for the 19th and 20th of June 2025

Paleoclimatologists from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� and geologists from the British Antarctic Survey will make reconstructions of the geological time periods with rapid global warming and fastest ice sheet melt.

Groundwater with high concentrations of nitrogen forms the largest source of nitrogen for global river systems, like the Rhine, Mississippi and Yangtze rivers.

Introduction IMAU newsletter by René van Westen.

The Nordenskiöldbreen project, a collaboration between IMAU and Uppsala ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, came to an end after 18 years.

For the opening keynote for the 16th Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference, Josie Chambers chose not to focus on the dominant ways people have been co-producing knowledge and action for sustainability. But rather, to take stock of the field and ask: what exactly are we co-producing? Are we producing knowledge that reinforces how the world is? Or are we imagining and prefiguring explorations of how the world can be otherwise?

Does the ocean belong to humanity? To states? Or does the ocean belong to itself? The “Whose Ocean?” project received an Incubator Grant to explore this question and understand its significance.

How do plastic items move through the Wadden Sea? To answer that question, the OceanParcels team went on two expeditions to deploy 24 Stokes drifters.

According to a new report by the Global Carbon Project emissions of N2O (nitrous oxide) has increased by 40 percent between 1980 and 2020.

Researchers from the Copernicus Institute put together a performing and visual arts performance around the theme of hope in times of crisis.

Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students in the heart of Utrecht to understand the potential of integrating health and nature in cities.

Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages has a new book published, an interdisciplinary study of medieval thinking about the city in text, image, and material culture.

Wouter de Rijk, PhD candidate at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Governance, best explained his research to the lay audience.