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Heavily polluted waters, such as Lake Grevelingen, emit large amounts of methane because the sediment's natural methane filter is under severe stress.

Geologist Akbar Huseynov investigated how underground fluids have moved through the Earth's crust over millions of years.

For years, sand nourishment has been an important way to protect the Dutch coast against erosion and rising sea levels. But we know surprisingly little about one type of nourishment, shoreface nourishment.

Glaciers are melting around the world. Last decade, the loss of ice in the more populated regions, such as Europe, increased at ever-faster rates.

Climate change can accelerate due to feedback mechanisms: complex phenomena caused by climate change that in turn can further drive climate change. An example is the extra CO2 emissions from thawing permafrost. Research into the influence of feedback mechanisms in the long term has been ongoing, and modern climate change research is obviously happening as well, but the connection between the two has so far been underemphasized.

Long-term drought, severe storms, and rising sea levels; Without a clear policy, we will eventually find ourselves surrounded by water, without a drop to drink, explain  Maarten Kleinhans ,  Esther Stouthamer  and  Niko Wanders.

Extreme rainfall events are becoming more extreme and periods of drought are becoming more frequent.

As of 15 December, Mariette Wolthers is appointed professor of Aquatic Geochemistry in the Earth Sciences Department of the Faculty of Geosciences.

A new research project at the University of Twente will develop a novel way to identify and monitor landslides, even when cloud cover obscures traditional satellite images.

A new research project at the University of Twente will develop a novel way to identify and monitor landslides, even when cloud cover obscures traditional satellite images.

The research programme DeepNL of the Dutch Research Counsil NWO aims to improve the fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the deep subsurface under the influence of human interventions.

Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away.

From 1 November 2023, Kei Otsuki will be appointed professor of International Development Studies at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the faculty of Geosciences.

The Grand Départ is scheduled for 1 July, but the preparations for this year's Tour de France started more than 400 million years ago, when the rocks of the Central Massif and the Vosges Mountains were formed.

This spring Utrecht University geoscientists will launch a new metadata catalogue. But what exactly is such a catalogue, and how can it help you as a scientist? Project manager Ronald Pijnenburg gives us a tour of the new system.

Today, the National Geographic Society launched the World Water Map as part of its five-year World Freshwater Initiative to better understand developing freshwater shortages around the world and inspire sustainable action.

Utrecht scientists developed the OceanParcels computer program that shows how plastic, bacteria and other particles move around the ocean.

The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean.

A first-of-its-kind scientific report detailing the natural emergency unfolding in the Amazon basin was presented today at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.