Course: Climate and Energy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

From Gruvbryggen (“the miner’s pier”), we have walked 2 km through the forest to Södra Sandvik (“southern sandy bay”). Here we will meet Alasdair Skelton, Professor at Stockholm University and …

Next to a hut in Uto, we learn that renewable energies will play a key role in this energy transition, and that three sources of sustainable electricity production stand out …

Donatella Magri, Associate Professor at Sapienza University explores the role of climate as a driver of biodiversity loss during the past 2.6 million years. She explains the stages of biodiversity …

This massive online open course (MOOC) was created by a multinational team of educators from across Europe while gathered together on a small island called Utö which is situated in …

Ultimately, the extension of the production of renewable electricity is an unstoppable process, with guaranteed technical and economic success, and which in the medium term can allow a significant reduction …

Stepping by a wood pile close to a hut, Juan reflects on how human societies have used energy along history, and the signature this has left on Nature. Forests changed …

Knowledge of the effects of solar plants on biodiversity is even more limited than in the previous cases, although there is evidence that their effect may be relevant due to …

The production of electricity in hydroelectric plants has more than a century of history, has very well-developed technologies and dominates renewable energy production; but it begins to be an energy …

Wind power plants possibly represent the icon of the energy transition, due to the majesty of their windmills and their ability to produce large amounts of electricity. Wind power plants …

The Proterozoic Eon began 2.5 billion years ago. Its name means “early life” but we now know that life existed long before the start of this eon. This eon starts …

The boring billion was followed by Snowball Earth. The equatorial position of the continents and rise of a mountain belt that straddled the equator created a “perfect storm” for global …

Electrical energy represents only a fraction of the total energy consumption of human beings, but its magnitude continues to grow for two reasons: the general increase in energy consumption of …

Heat pumps (HPs) are a technology that ought to have a central place in the European energy policies. In the current energy crisis, with unprecedented energy prices caused mainly by …

In a paper entitled Age of the Earth which was published in Science in 1955, Clair Patterson and colleagues estimated that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Their estimate …

In this video, Associate Professor Thibaut Devièse discusses the principles of geochronology and its role in studies of the climate and environment of the past.