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Under certain conditions the plastic sector may grow to become a form of carbon sink.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will award two honorary doctorates to leading climate scientists, Professor Corinne Le Quéré and Professor Sonia Seneviratne, on 27 March 2023.

Max Rietkerk, Arjen Doelman, Ehud Meron and Isla Myers-Smith have received a €10 million ERC Synergy grant with their project RESILIENCE. They will investigate whether and how tipping points can be prevented or avoided.

Climate is changing, ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising. This concern is crystal clear. Eight questions to four passionate 'polar researchers'.

Twelve Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ researchers mentioned in Reuters press agency ranking of the world’s most influential climate scientists

Philip Kraaijenbrink will receive the prestigious Martinus van Marum prize for the best Dutch PhD research in environmental sciences in the past five years.

Een internationaal onderzoeksteam geleid door Niels de Winter van de Universiteit Utrecht heeft met behulp van een nieuwe methode de maandelijkse temperatuurverschillen in het Krijt gereconstrueerd.

Research shows more people in the Netherlands support the farmers’ protests than the climate protests. Liesbeth van de Grift sheds light on these findings.

Using a novel model, researchers determined how great the impact of melting glaciers will be downstream, and how the pressure on different water sources will increase.

The consequences of further and further deepening waterways in the harbour of Rotterdam are bigger than those of rising sea levels for the time being, geographer Jana Cox argues.

The jury praises the Climate Helpdesk for meeting a great societal need with a simple and effective idea, directly connecting scientists and the public.

The immense challenge countries are facing in Glasgow is the consequence of postponing climate policy for years. We cannot continue to put problems ahead of us, Oreane Edelenbosch and Detlef van Vuuren argue.

The production of renewable fuels can be increased by more than 40 per cent without having to cultivate a single square metre more of land, this study shows.

Reconstruction of the temperatures of the ocean when ice sheets grew and shrank.

From 15 July 2024, Michelle van Vliet will be appointed professor of Water Quality and Sustainable Water Systems at the faculty of Geosciences.

Soil moisture content plays a key role in reshaping land surface temperatures

How do climate change and societal developments impact surface water quality until the end of the century?

Groundwater scientists and model developers from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and Deltares joined forces to create the very first 1 km global groundwater model.

New compelling evidence for the combined effects of global warming and widespread mercury pollution that continued to stress plants long after volcanic activity had ceased 201 million years ago.

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.