🚨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/...

🚨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

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...

🚨 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...

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/...

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...

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.

"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...

Just in: A response to the European Commission Call for Evidence, on the needs for the upcoming EU climate adaptation plan (ECAP) from the new EGU Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force (including one of our members: Marie Cavitte) here: www.egu.eu/news/1470/th...

🌍🔥 Billions of children’s futures are at stake. Kids born today face unprecedented heatwaves, floods & droughts if warming hits 3.5 °C. Meeting the 1.5 °C Paris goal could protect millions. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed now! Read our latest Research Showcase: www.vscentrum.be/post/global-...

School's out for summer: What does extreme heat do to children? www.context.news/climate-risk...

In the absence of global climate mitigation, we project a regime shift to a world dominated by compound hazards or impacts. In our new paper by Gabriele Messori, we find that compound hazard occurrences will become the norm in many regions under RCP6.0 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🔥 Global mapping shows a 500%+ rise in compound climate hazards by 2100, especially heatwaves. Belgian research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel highlights the shift from isolated to concurrent events: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #ClimateAction

Paper in discussion at GMD on an AI/ML approach to data rescue of meteorological records from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... really impressive stuff from PhD student Derrick Muheki out of @wimthiery.bsky.social group.

Over de verhoogde kans op een hete zomer volgend op een droge lente: www.knack.be/nieuws/milie...

Will you live an unprecedented life? In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"What will climate change mean for today’s children, and their children?" - A talk by climate scientist @wimthiery.bsky.social, one of the Architects of Hope selected by House of Sustainable Transitions. 🗓 July 2, 2025 – Online Register: www.house-of-sustainable-transitions.be/details-en-r...

This study was led by Luke Grant as part of his PhD in the bclimate group @hydr-vub.bsky.social and benefited from a wonderful collaboration with co-authors @innevanderkelen.bsky.social, @erichfischer.bsky.social, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and Lukas Gudmundsson (@usyseth.bsky.social). 19/n

NEW – Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C | @setupelz.bsky.social @robinlamboll.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social Read here:

What an interesting week we had at the 2nd EUTOPIA Groundwater Workshop and Conference in Dresden. We built groundwater models of managed aquifer recharge systems and reflected on interdisciplinary ways of measuring the success of MAR.

In our new paper in @pnas.org led by @setupelz.bsky.social, we coin and analyze the concept of net-zero carbon depth. We also highlight how net-zero carbon debt accrual and lifetime extreme event exposure compound towards a disproportionate climate change burden on current young generations

What's the fairest way to deal with the (inevitable) overshoot of 1.5°C? New paper led by @setupelz.bsky.social explores the concept of "net zero carbon debt" Here's the VUB press release: press.vub.ac.be/who-is-respo...

Future climate scenarios don't include actual potential future volcanic eruptions. In a paper led by May Chim, we fixed that. The summary is that including volcanoes increases the uncertainty in climate projections in the near term (think a 4th colour in Hawkins & Sutton) doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Good groundwater modellers should know the rocks they are modelling. This week, researchers from the Groundwater Group from @hydr-vub.bsky.social are in Etretat in France to learn about geology and hydrogeology of Chalk aquifers and to observe variations of Chalk properties on spectacular outcrops.

Happy first-ever World Glacier Day! 🧊🌍 At bglacier, we study how #glaciers shape water resources and contribute to sea level rise in a changing climate.

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