📣The climate transition is an economic opportunity, not just a necessity. In this video Wim Thiery explains that the technology exists, it is affordable, and the🚆has left the station. Watch the video 👉 www.vub.be/nl/nieuws/to...

Toekomstdenker Wim Thiery over hoe de klimaattransitie ons rijker kan maken

“De trein is vertrokken. Springen we aan boord, dan worden wij de winnaars!”

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So, will you live an unprecedented life? Welcome to my @erc.europa.eu inaugural lecture Thursday 22 october 17h @vubrussel.bsky.social @hydr-vub.bsky.social www.vub.be/en/event/erc...

ERC Lecture Wim Thiery LACRIMA

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Great news for our group🌲 Prof. Valerie Trouet (dendrochronology, from the University of Arizona) joins our team @hydr-vub.bsky.social — tree rings meet heatwave attribution. We're excited for what's coming! www.vub.be/nl/nieuws/pr...

Prof. Valerie Trouet komt het VUB-klimaatonderzoek versterken met Amerikaanse expertise

“Europese bomen kunnen ons nog veel vertellen over bosbranden uit het verleden”

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📢 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 to join the 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐖 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, an EU-funded 𝐌𝐒𝐂𝐀 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 bringing together climate scientists, legal researchers, lawyers, NGOs and others to strengthen the links between 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. hydr.vub.be/media/attach...

New Paper Alert 🚨! We present MeteoSaver, an open-source machine-learning-based software for transcribing historical weather data! This software enables unlocking of valuable archived weather observations. #DataRescue #ClimateData #OpenScience 🔗: gmd.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

MeteoSaver v1.0: a machine-learning based software for the transcription of historical weather data

Abstract. Archives of observed weather data present unique opportunities for scientists to obtain long time series of the historical climate for many regions of the world. Unfortunately, most of these...

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📰 #Press release: press.vub.ac.be/wind-and-sol... @vubrussel.bsky.social @hydr-vub.bsky.social @paulmunoz.bsky.social @luispineda.bsky.social

Wind and solar power to keep the lights on in Ecuador

Empty reservoirs caused disrupted energy supply

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🚨New Paper Alert! How can AI help us with modelling wildfires? New paper led by our colleague @seppelampe.bsky.social presents BuRNN, a deep learning model to simulate fires on a global 0.5° grid!🌎 #wildfires #bclimate #deeplearning 🔗Link: gmd.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

BuRNN (v1.0): a data-driven fire model

Abstract. Fires play an important role in the Earth system but remain complex phenomena that are challenging to model numerically. Here, we present the first version of BuRNN, a data-driven model simu...

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🚨Luister naar dit Radio 1 interview met onze collega Sarah Lamotte over hittekoepels als tastbaar gevolg van de klimaatverandering. 🔗Link: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist... #bclimate

⚖️ Are you working on topics that could be relevant for climate litigation? ➡️ Submit an abstract to our outreach session (which allows you to submit a second abstract) #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

🌍Working on the geosciences and legal practice interface? 📝Submit an abstract to our session at the European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) session “Bridging the gap between climate science and legal practice: informing laws and litigation: informing laws and litigation” 🔗 www.egu26.eu/session/56999

💧Working with managed aquifer recharge? Submit your abstract to our session at this year's European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) before 15th January 2026: 🔗Sustainable water management with managed aquifer recharge (MAR) (www.egu26.eu/session/56581) #EGU26

🏔️❄️Working on glaciers, ice sheets, or cryospheric science? Consider submitting an abstract to one of these four @egu.eu sessions: 👉 Glaciers and Ice Caps under Climate Change (www.egu26.eu/session/56611) 👉 Surface mass balance of glaciers, ice sheets and ice shelves (www.egu26.eu/session/56610)

🌍 Happy to invite you to join our European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) session on 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 (www.egu26.eu/session/56816) #EGU26

📢Are you engaged at the Science-Policy interface as a scientist, knowledge broker or policymaker? 📝 Consider sharing your insights at our European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) 2026 session : Strengthening Policy Through Science: Insights from the interface (EOS4.6): www.egu26.eu/session/57129

With confirmed invited speakers Axel Kleidon and @anabastos.bsky.social 📅 Official abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET Convened by Ryan Teuling @w-u-r.bsky.social, @innevanderkelen.bsky.social, Diego Miralles, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and myself

📢 Working on land atmosphere-interactions and their role in shaping climate extremes? 🌍 Consider submitting an abstract to our European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) 2026 session: Land-atmosphere interactions and climate extremes (CL4.4): www.egu26.eu/session/56763

🚨 New paper ❄️ Our new study led by @landervt.bsky.social tracks the fate of ~200,000 #glaciers worldwide. Even if warming is limited to +1.5°C, only 50% remain. With higher warming, losses accelerate, with up to ~4,000 glaciers disappearing per year. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

🚨 Deadline Friday! ❄️ #bglacier is hiring a PhD to help search for ancient ice near Princess Elisabeth Station (#Antarctica). Remote sensing, modelling, field data, and possible Antarctic fieldwork! Details 👉 hydr.vub.be/media/attach...

🌍Two members of our department @cjsmith.be and @harryzeko.bsky.social joined the first IPCC AR7 lead author meeting in Saint-Denis (Paris). #IPCC #AR7 #ClimateScience #WG1 #ClimateAction

❄️ We’re hiring! The #bglacier group is looking for a motivated #PhD to join the #BECOOLproject and search for ancient ice near Princess Elisabeth Station in #Antarctica. 📋 Mix of modelling, remote sensing & fieldwork. 🗓️ Apply by 12 Dec: hydr.vub.be/media/attach... Will you join us? 🙂

Global farming practices are driving heat stress and water strain. Read about our new findings just published in Nature Communications here: prez.ly/Xh0d

When Irrigation Backfires

Global farming practices are driving heat stress and water strain, VUB researchers warn

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Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend). New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications

This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...

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🚨 New paper alert! Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉 Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Damage development on Antarctic ice shelves sensitive to climate warming - Nature Climate Change

Damages such as crevasses or cracks can be early indicators of ice shelf weakening. Here, the authors quantify changes in damage structures in Antarctic ice sheets, which show sensitivity to warming

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Honored to see our MeteoSaver software featured among the @time.com top-400 best inventions of 2025. MeteoSaver is a open-source weather data rescue software developed by @derrickmuheki.bsky.social working @hydr-vub.bsky.social @vubrussel.bsky.social time.com/collections/...

MeteoSaver: The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions

Find out why MeteoSaver earned a special mention on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions.

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It was an honour to host this year's #OGGM workshop at @vubrussel.bsky.social . 3 days of #glacier modelling and so much more! Next year (10th year celebration!) the OGGM workshop will take place in #Obergurgl (24-28 AUG 2026)

Excited to be back on the #Morteratsch #glacier complex for our annual fieldwork. Together with colleagues from the Geography department, the coming week we will measure how the glacier is changing. Stay tuned for some updates! @vubrussel.bsky.social #GLAMOS

"Revolutionary AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models": News article @nature.com describing efforts of @hydr-vub.bsky.social Researcher @derrickmuheki.bsky.social to rescue weather records from DR Congo using the MeteoSaver software he developed: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models

Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.

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Our ongoing climate data rescue work in DR Congo has been featured in the news articles of Nature Portfolio (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). As part of our project, Derrick Muheki (derrickmuheki.bsky.social) developed MeteoSaver, an open-source ML software for transcribing historical weather data.

‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models

Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.

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"Het risico op hittesterfte stijgt sterk. We moeten ons aanpassen aan escalerende hitterisico's", zegt Wim Thiery (wimthiery.bsky.social). Lusiter naar het volledige interview op Radio 1: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...

Seppe Lampe (seppelampe.bsky.social), onderzoeker in onze groep, bespreekt de recente grote bosbranden in Europa en de rol van klimaatverandering bij grote bosbranden. Luister hier op Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3FiQ...