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Welcome to Södra Sandvik

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 …

Lessons from past biodiversity loss

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 …

Welcome to Utö

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 …

Energy transitions in Human societies

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 …

Environmental effects of dams and hydropower

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 …

Sweden emerges

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 …

Snowball Earth

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 …

Case study: Heat pumps

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 …

Setting the Stage

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 …

Geochronology

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.