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I just returned from a train trip up north with my partner and two-year-old daughter. Specifically, to Kiruna and Abisko in Sweden. Partly, I wanted to meet one of Europe’s peripheries and, in so doing, better understand its centres. Most of all, I hoped to engage with the Sami, the EU’s only recognised indigenous group. I was sorely disappointed.

The Royal Meteorological Society awards Gerbrand Koren for his dedicated service as guest editors of Climate Resilience and Sustainability.

Looking back on the summer school that took place from 3 - 7 July 2023 at the UU Botanical Gardens, organised by Urban Futures Studio.

It is feasible to provide refugees living in camps with clean and reliable energy, according to a study by energy scientists.

Joint report 'Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in hard-to-abate sectors' PBL and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��

New research suggests that climate change is causing dryland mechanisms to increasingly affect the wetter areas of the planet.

Grants from National Science Agenda programme Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC)

Hoog- en laagvenen, kwelders, mangrovebossen en zeegrasvelden blijken ‘hotspots’ van CO2-opslag te zijn.

On 7 March 2022 starts a new art-science collaboration between the Urban Futures Studio and designers Julien Thomas and Ekaterina Volkova.

Former Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� researcher recognised for his many efforts in science, nature and environmental protection in the Netherlands

The innovative research project of NIOZ and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� will 3D print artificial reef structures made of biodegradable material.

More ambition is needed from car manufacturers and national governments to stay on track to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Loes Verkuil (Sustainable Development) has won a Young Talent Graduation Prize in the category of Biology.

On 16 May, Minister Staghouwer of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) signed a new Green Deal ‘Nature-inclusive Agriculture in Green Education’.

In memoriam Dr Aat Barendregt

Since the adoption of the SDGs in 2015, international organizations have become more likely to collaborate with organisations working on similar issues to them.

By 2050, between 10-47% of the forest becomes vulnerable to potentially irreversible local ecological changes, new research shows.

Five Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development researchers were recently awarded impressive grants by the European Research Council (ERC) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

From most people’s gut perspective, belonging is rooted in a kind of from-ness. Like a tree, you are rooted in a place. Though it’s not easily admitted in liberal society, one’s rootedness is usually detected by skin colour and facial features. Even amongst the most welcoming of insiders, there is an unspoken assumption that those here first get to decide how things ought to be. On a secondary level, cultural behaviour confers belonging. “Okay, their grandparents aren’t from here, but at least they get our way of life.”​​​​​​​ But what is this “our” anyway?​​​​​​​

Art-science collaborations are on the rise everywhere. Yet, what these relations constitute in practice is less clear. The very term “art-science” is itself limiting. Many collaborations seek to go beyond this simple binary, exploring the potential that exists at the intersection of artistic and research practices.