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The recent news is abundantly clear: severe weather, yellow code alerts, and water damage in large parts of the country. Due to climate change, we can expect more heat and drought, but also more rainfall in a short period of time. And when it rains,

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A misty rain blows against my face as I follow Farah Obaidullah along Scheveningen Beach in the northwest part of The Hague. Despite the wind and drizzle, the shoreline feels calm. Gray waves roll into the sand like long, deep breaths. Machines have raked the beach into a well-manicured carpet of […]

Dr Don Samuel Flooding is a solvable national crisis which deserves our urgent attention owing to its ongoing impact to our productivity and economy. The University of the West Indies (UWI), via its Triple “A” Strategy, aims to build relationships with the society it serves. Thus, this article briefly explores the root causes and offers

THE LOW-PRESSURE region began forming on July 11th over the area where Germany meets Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Hundreds of kilometres wide and puffed up by heat—in the Netherlands, it had been the hottest June since 1901—it sucked in moisture from lakes and wet soil all across central Europe. Then it sat there for days, disgorging colossal quantities of rain. Some regions got over 90mm of precipitation on July 13th and a further 70mm or more the next day. Reservoirs filled, s...

20 Best Countries to Live Considering Climate Change Climate change is posing existential threats to the world. It has become evident with extreme weather, shrinking glaciers, accelerated sea levels,  and record floods that global climate change is on the verge of destroying the environment. Climate change can be referred to as the significant increase in Earth’s temperature due to activities like burning fossil fuels (leading to carbon emission), deforestation, and intensive agriculture. Th...

Share An impressive number of three scientists from Utrecht University have been nominated for the Wetenschapstalentprijs (Science Talent Prize) for 2021. Science journal New Scientist awards the prize each year to promising and talented young scientists from the Netherlands and Flanders. From 20 April to 3 May 2021, you can vote for your favourite researcher on the New Scientist website. So allow us to introduce the talent! Our world is changing, and we are losing biodiversity every day. But i...