/en en Sun, 04 May 2025 11:28:21 +0200 Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:36:00 +0200 /en/news/how-universities-themselves-contribute-to-the-spread-of-misinformation Universiteiten spelen een cruciale rol in het verspreiden van betrouwbare wetenschappelijke informatie. Ironisch genoeg kunnen wetenschappelijke persberichten soms ook bijdragen aan misleidende beeldvorming. 149138 Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:36:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/publication/estuaries-around-the-world-expected-to-become-saltier-in-the-coming-decades More saltwater intrusion poses serious risks to drinking water, ecosystems, and agriculture. 148756 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/jonas-lembrechts-and-his-students-chart-biodiversity-across-the-netherlands The plan is to continue monitoring for years. Lembrechts: “By measuring continuously over the long term, we can get a clear picture of biodiversity variation." 147023 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:24:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/background/uu-talk-show-human-rights-in-times-of-climate-change In the second episode of the ÀÖÓãºǫ́ talk show Science and Society, three guests address the question of how climate change affects the meaning and importance of human rights. 145440 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:39:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/smart-algorithms-make-climate-predictions-faster-and-more-accurate Machine learning can fill in 'invisible puzzle pieces', making climate models more realistic and accurate. 145364 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:15:00 +0100 Nieuws Henk Dijkstra at opening CLUe /en/news/inaugural-lecture-by-laura-villanueva-oceans-hidden-heroes In her inaugural lecture, Prof. Laura Villanueva will illuminate the hidden world of marine microbes, and highlight how they influence our planet’s complex systems in remarkable and sometimes unexpected ways. 144855 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:25:00 +0100 Nieuws Laura Villanueva /en/news/public-engagement-seed-fund-for-green-projects Monique de Jager (Project Aanwaaiers) and Susanne Knittel (Ecocide Mock Trial) receive the Public Engagement Seed Fund to organize a public activity. 143920 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:54:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/new-interactive-video-platform-opens-window-into-transformative-research-on-just-energy-transitions On July 17th 2024, the Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity (ReSET) project launches an innovative, experimental website to share research findings on just energy transitions more effectively and engagingly. 142050 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/michelle-van-vliet-appointed-professor-of-water-quality-and-sustainable-water-systems From 15 July 2024, Michelle van Vliet will be appointed professor of Water Quality and Sustainable Water Systems at the faculty of Geosciences. 141760 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/36000-buried-tea-bags-aid-science-and-bring-to-light-the-importance-of-soil Project raised awareness among citizens, schoolchildren and students of soil decomposition processes that play a significant role in climate and biodiversity . 141763 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/age-of-organic-carbon-important-factor-in-ocean-carbon-storage Researchers from Nanjing universities and Utrecht University made the first sink or source map that can be used when deciding where to invest in blue carbon. 141503 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/achtergrond/uso-project-to-help-students-in-the-climate-crisis 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. 141424 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:46:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/nitrogen-legacy-keeps-rivers-polluted-for-decades Groundwater with high concentrations of nitrogen forms the largest source of nitrogen for global river systems, like the Rhine, Mississippi and Yangtze rivers. 141233 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/emissions-of-the-greenhouse-gas-n2o-have-risen-sharply According to a new report by the Global Carbon Project emissions of N2O (nitrous oxide) has increased by 40 percent between 1980 and 2020. 141177 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/30-million-euros-for-research-into-climate-change-feedbacks The next step in climate change research thanks to NWO Summit grant: climate feedbacks and their interference with present-day climate change 140755 Fri, 24 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/seaweed-forests-are-an-overlooked-component-of-oceanic-carbon-storage The world’s seaweed forests transport 56 million tonnes of carbon (between 10 to 170 million tonnes) to deep ocean sinks each year. 140715 Wed, 22 May 2024 10:29:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/climate-change-and-mercury-pollution-stressed-plants-for-millions-of-years 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. 140182 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:15:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/achtergrond/call-open-cities-reading-circles If you are starting a new research project and want to read specific scholarship, we invite you to suggest a reading circle within our Open Cities events. 139199 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/call-for-abstracts-tropical-horizons-2024 Call for abstracts of papers and posters for the Tropical Horizons Conference 2024. 139150 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/in-de-media/liesbeth-van-de-grift-explains-why-more-people-support-farmers-protests-than-climate-protests Research shows more people in the Netherlands support the farmers’ protests than the climate protests. Liesbeth van de Grift sheds light on these findings. 138190 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:09:00 +0100 Nieuws