News about Climate

High temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely

Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the summer of 2022

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and PhD student Nikolaj Schultz have published the article ‘The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts’ in…

Vibrating trucks searched for Denmark's future underground CO2 storage sites

Seismic studies of the deep soil layers in northwest Zealand will help researchers locate soil formations suitable for storing captured CO2 in the near future. The University of Copenhagen is supplying academic expertis…

Speech by Head of Department Svend Christensen for PLEN's 10-year anniversary

PLEN celebrated 10 years of science, education and collaboration in agricultural science, biotechnology and environmental sciences at University of Copenhagen on 14 October 2022. In his anniversary speech, Professor…

Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan

From mid-June until the end of August 2022, large parts of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoonal rainfall, leading to large parts of the country being flooded.

Not all covid-19 lockdowns improved air quality in world cities

Contrary to what one might expect, air quality did not improve during mild covid-19 lockdowns in all cities. In fact, the emission of harmful gasses from transport has in some places increased, even during stringent…

Plant-based foods: New specialisation in the MSc Programme in Food Science and Technology

We have to get better at processing plants into climate-friendly foods, while at the same time focusing on nutrition, health, and taste. That’s why we, at the University of Copenhagen, are offering a specialisation in…

Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans

Copenhagen recently defaulted on its pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2025. This early failure in the global race to net zero emissions may foreshadow backtracking by other target-setters, indicating that pledges to…

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience

On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…

New field expedition to Ecuador

A new expedition to Ecuador from the Villum Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity aims at enhancing the understanding of biodiversity hotspots by collecting data from birds.

Two grains, mutual gain: surviving drought through varietal collaboration

Some draw water from the soil’s depths, while others absorb nutrients nearer to the surface with shallow, wide root systems. Fields of grains with mixed properties could be the future for farmers hoping to protect their…

Ngo Ying Lo

Title: The Need for Speed - An Investigation of bottlenecks towards optimization of EC-Earth3-HR (on CRAY XC50) Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Emma Karin Lyeteg Lund

Embodying Systems Thinking: An in-depth investigation into five climate change-professionals’ experience of Alexander Technique Supervisors: Lise Tjørring and Anders Svensson

Elloise Jensen Fangel-Lloyd

Title: Fewer storms as a consequence ofclimate change - Decreasing baroclinicity observed in Lorenz energetics and EOF analyses of climate data Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen and Eigil Kaas

Katharina Scheidt

Title: Modeling Paleotemperatures from Stable Nitrogen Isotopes with the Community Firn Model Supervisors:Dr. Vasileios Gkinis, Dr. Michael Döring & Dr. Guido Vettoretti

Listening is survival

ROCS postdoc Angela Rawlings is co-curator of SPHERE Festival which opens 2 September in Canada.

Biodiversity cradles and museums: New study on speciation-extinction dynamics

The distribution of old and young species brings new insight into the speciation-extinction dynamics operating in global hotspots of biodiversity.

Congratulations to Emy Alerskans

Congratulations to Emy Alerskans at DMI & Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 29 August 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Biodiversity cradles and museums segregating within hotspots of endemism

In Proceedings of The Royal Society B by Sonne, J., Dalsgaard, B., Rahbek, C. et al. (2022)

Popular research station reopens in Greenland: Danish zoologist recognized the greenhouse effect at same site in 1904

For more than a century, Arctic climate research has been collected and stored at the University of Copenhagen's northernmost research station – the Arctic Station. Now, after a thorough renovation and modernisation, th…

Call for abstracts: Climate Change Related Mobility in the Nordic Region

The second workshop of the Nordic Network on Climate-Related Displacement and Mobility will take place on 8-9 December 2022 hosted at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund Sweden. Abstracts are due 20 September. Read…

Øyvind Andreas Winton

Title: Scientific machine learning for discovering basal dynamics of Greenland outlet glaciers Supervisors: Aslak Grindsted, Allan P. Engsig-Karup & Sebastian B. Simonsen