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Under the coordination of Utrecht University, seventeen organizations will be working together over the next four years to improve detection and measurement of all major greenhouse gases in eight European countries. The new insights are…

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today addressed the World Bank Event titled ‘Making it Personal: How Behavioral Change Can Tackle Climate Change’ via video message. The Prime Minister acknowledged his personal connection with the…

After the North Sea Flood of 1953, it took nearly 45 years to finalise the Delta Works. If we want to protect The Netherlands against sea-level rise, we should take measures in time. But how much time do we have left? An international…

Geologists from Utrecht, London and Granada have found the first direct proof of the largest known mega-flood that ever occurred on earth. This mega-flood ended what is known as the ‘Messinian Salinity Crisis’, a period around six million…

More than 8,500 Utrecht University researchers and students already use Yoda external link, a research data management service developed at Utrecht University. From now on, researchers from five other Dutch universities will also start…

At least 30 per cent of the Dutch population has difficulty with government texts. Communications such as letters and emails are difficult to understand due to abstract or unfamiliar words and long sentences. Many readers are not sure…

The IPCC released the final part of its Sixth Assessment Report on March 20, urging that only swift and drastic action against climate change can avert irreversible damage to the world. A new study published in Nature Climate Change has…

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a grant of 3 million euros to the FORT-PORT (Focusing On the Right Things in the Port of Rotterdam) project. In the project, government organisations, (port) companies and scientists work…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded two ERC Advanced Grants to Guido Bacciagaluppi (Faculty of Science) and Rebecca Bryant (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences). The grants are awarded every year to exceptional senior…

Utrecht University has appointed Sanne Abeln as Professor of AI Technology for Life. Abeln and her research group will focus on developing technology in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of gaining more insight into…