Tag Archives: Drought

🌿 Can we mitigate global drought using vegetation-driven rainfall? 🌧️

Posted on November 26, 2024 by lembrechtsjonas

Check out this inspiring and creative video by our ecology students at Utrecht University! Combining humor, innovation, and scientific depth, they shine a spotlight on an urgent global issue: drought and its devastating impact on ecosystems, livelihoods, and the climate. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged climate change, Drought, Forests, Global change, Students, Teaching, Vegetation-driven rainfall | Leave a comment

Wet nature as airco for the city

Posted on November 3, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

I find it of paramount importance that students learn how to communicate their research. Summarizing their ideas and findings for a broad audience challenges them to keep the ‘why’ in mind for their research, and reminds them they are part … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged climate change, CNidT, Drought, Ecology, Flanders, Heat, Nature, Science, Temperature | 1 Comment

History in the making

Posted on October 28, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

What you see brightening up my garden on the picture above is what we hope will be the future of microclimate monitoring: a TMS-logger with connection to the internet! Yes, you read that correctly, TOMST is currently working on a … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged climate change, Drought, Ecology, Garden, Garden photography, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Temperature | Leave a comment

Welcoming Stijn

Posted on October 19, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, we had a new PhD candidate starting in the lab! His name is Stijn, and he is here to pull our fabulous citizen science project ‘CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin’, in which we will measure summer heat and drought … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged climate change, Drought, Ecology, Gardening, Gardens, Microclimate, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Early drought

Posted on May 23, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Europe is suffering from extremely early spring drought. And again, as every year, our water use is back on the agenda. And it should be: water availability might become one of our society’s biggest problems. In fact, it already is: … Continue reading →

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Global risks

Posted on January 29, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Each year, at the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Global Risks Report is published. The Global Risks Report is created by experts and decision-makers from all over the world, and this year’s version covers more risks than … Continue reading →