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An international team of scientists has just demonstrated that major Himalayan earthquakes occur randomly over the long term, with no predictable pattern. Published in Science Advances, the study is based on the analysis of sediment cores taken from the bottom of Nepalese lakes, reconstructing 6,000 years of seismic activity.

A new international study highlights the major influence of the melting of the Antarctic ice cap in the past evolution of ocean circulation. The results show how this process has profoundly influenced the Earth's climate, and suggest that it could play a decisive role in the ocean's future capacity to absorb man-made carbon dioxide and excess heat linked to global warming.

No ice left by the year 3000, with a potential contribution of more than 7 metres to sea-level rise Greenland, which has been prominently in the news in recent days, hosts a vast ice sheet. If it melts, it will become one of the largest contributors to global sea-level rise. Under a high-emissions scenario, the Greenland Ice Sheet is expected to largely disappear over time, with far-reaching consequences.

The future of Antarctica beyond 2100 is a cause for concern: high emissions will lead to major long-term ice loss. A study published on December 05, 2025 in Nature Communications warns that the fate of the Antarctic ice cap, the planet's largest reservoir of freshwater ice, will play a decisive role in future sea-level rise.

International research shows that most Antarctic ice shelves could disappear if greenhouse gas emissions are not drastically reduced An international team of scientists, led by researchers from Unive

Is it moral, ethical or even acceptable for research projects to be carried out in countries of the "Global South" without any local scientists being involved? A new study has quantified this problem in the Dry Puna and Atacama Desert area of Latin America. An article by Gabriel A. Pinto in The Conversation.

Large-scale technological fixes, known as geoengineering, will not protect the Arctic or Antarctica from climate change-and could even cause harm.

As part of the European Green2Ice project, Mathia Sabino (Glaciology Laboratory - Faculty of Science) took part in a ten-day scientific mission to Greenland.

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in the highly ranked journal One Earth , demonstrates that plankton is not onl

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in the highly ranked journal One Earth , demonstrates that plankton is not only the basis of the marine food chain but also a crucial natural ally in combating global warming. In their publication, Prevalence of Multi-Micronutrient Limitation of Phytoplankton Growth in the Southern Ocean , the researchers offer new insight into the functioning and resilience of the Southern Ocean ecosystem.

An international scientific team, including researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles led by François Fripiat, have successfully located an old borehole drilled in 1992 at the top of the Greenland ice cap. Buried under five metres of snow that had accumulated over three decades, the 10-centimetre diameter hole had become difficult to locate.

Ice melting from glaciers around the world is affecting regional freshwater resources and driving global sea levels to rise at ever-faster rates. According to new findings through an international effort involving Prof. Harry Zekollari (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), glaciers have been losing an average of 273 billion tonnes of ice per year since the year 2000 - but hidden within this average there is an alarming increase over the last 10 years.

Belgian scientists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have returned from an expedition to Antarctica near the Princess Elisabeth Station, with blue ice samples and data that could lead them to ice millions of years old, providing valuable information on the evolution of the Earth's climate in the past.

An international team led by Belgian scientists has recovered 115 Antarctic meteorites weighing more than 2 kg (in total) during the ongoing 2024-2025 BELgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE).

More than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels: that's the average temperature rise measured by climate monitoring agencies for the year 2024.

Glaciers worldwide are shrinking at alarming rates, with dramatic implications for sea-level rise, water availability, biodiversity, and the stability of natural ecosystems.

A new study published in Nature Geoscience by an international team of scientists provides new insights into the natural mechanisms behind century-scale increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), known as CO2 jumps. The study, led by Etienne Legrain, paleoclimatologist at the Department of Water and Climate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Glaciology Laboratory of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Environmental Geosciences Institute of Université Grenoble-Alpes provides findings based on high-resolution measurements from Antarctic ice cores.

In early 2024, geophysicist Corentin Caudron plans to travel to Costa Rica to study the activities of the Poás volcano, by measuring sound emissions in the lake that fills its crater. He was to join a 20-strong team and bring back crucial data for volcano monitoring. But nature decided otherwise. An article published in The Conversation.

What exactly happens during and immediately after the impact of a meteorite? That was the question posed by a team of geologists from the research group Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry (AMGC) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The Chicxulub crater in Mexico is best known because of the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.