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This newly published audio paper offers an autoethnographic engagement with both glaciers and the ideas-of-glaciers through acts of listening by Snæfellsjökul fyrir …
Í Nóvember 2025 verða 180 ár liðin frá því að Árni Thorlacius hóf samfelldar veðurfarsmælingar í Stykkishólmi sem hafa staðið óslitið síðan. Þessar mælingar eru taldar með elstu samfelldu veðurmælingum í Evrópu og árið 2019 veitti Alþjóðaveðurfræðistofnunin Stykkishólmsbæ viðurkenningu fyrir það afrek. Samfélagslegt mikilvægi þeirra er ekkert minna en hið hnattræna þar sem þær gefa okkur dýrmæta innsýn inn í nær tveggja alda veðurfarsbreytileika í Norður Atlantshafi og hafa þannig lengi gagnast í margskonar innlendar og alþjóðlegar loftslagsrannsóknir. Í tilefni þessa afmælis verður efnt til málþings sem verður haldið í Vatnasafninu í Stykkishólmi 11. október næstkomandi.
The research project Centring Families in Iceland’s Just Transition sheds light on the key role of Icelandic families in climate action and sustainability. On October 9, there will be a public presentation of the project’s main emphases and its implementation, which combines processing from interviews with Icelandic families and research into the manifestations of families and environmental action in literature and film. October 9, 2025, 3-4 p.m. Saga, University of Iceland, room S-277
The third edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place in the Netherlands, from 21–24 September 2025. On September 21st, we …
Located at Justus-Leibig University of Gießen, the Panel on Planetary Thinking conducts transdisciplinary scientific research on planetary thinking, a novel approach that …
The Nordic Summit of Species is a two-day event (September 12-13, 2025) in Aarhus, Denmark bringing together civil society organisations that are …
In a special issue of Lagoonscapes, editorial members from the Confluence of European Water Bodies will bring together original journal articles and essays. …
Researchers at the University of Iceland and Brunel University in London recently received a grant from The British Academy to research the role and attitude of Icelandic families regarding climate action. The project is called Centring Families in Iceland’s Just Transition. Friday the 27th of June, members of the research team will present their project in conversation with the ongoing research project Climate Crisis and Affect: An Investigation of Embodied Emotions and Behaviours Regarding Climate Change in Iceland. Everyone is welcome.
The Nordic House, 2.-4. May, 2025: Other-Grounds Film Festival is a multicultural, collaborative initiative exploring what it means to be human on Earth—and how we can build responsible, connected relationships with nature and each other. In the face of today’s overlapping crises—environmental, social, and ideological—we seek new ways to perceive, imagine, and relate to the world. Bringing together films, conversations, and diverse perspectives, the festival highlights knowledge systems that have often been silenced. It amplifies voices fighting for sustainability, the rights of nature, and a more-than-human future.
Þetta viðtal birtist á vef Háskóla Íslands 28. mars 2025: „Ég held að það sé tilhneiging innan ákveðinna hópa á Íslandi að trúa því að hlýnun jarðar sé ekkert svo alvarleg. Ég hef ákveðnar kenningar um hvers vegna svo sé en engin skýr svör enn þá,“ segir Ole Martin Sandberg, nýdoktor í heimspeki við Háskóla Íslands, og vísar þar til viðfangsefnis rannsóknar sinnar, „Áhrif hamfarahlýnunar á tilfinningalíf: Rannsókn á áhrifum loftslagsbreytinga á tilfinningar og hegðun fólks á Íslandi“. Rannsóknin snýst um áhrif hnattrænnar hlýnunar á Íslandi út frá félagslegu og heimspekilegu sjónarhorni.