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Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded Hans Egede Medal

On Wednesday, ice core researcher Dorthe Dahl-Jensen was awarded the Hans Egede Medal for her research into Earth’s climate history. Her research has included longer stays on Greenland's deserted ice sheet and offers a…

Physical meeting in Copenhagen

FutureArcticLives held its first physical meeting and workshop in Copenhagen hosted by the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO).

Professor: "B12 deficiency harms young children's development – and the food relief we provide isn’t good enough"

Vitamin B12 deficiency in infants leads to poor motor development and anaemia, according to a study from Burkina Faso conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Médecins Sans Frontières. B12 deficiency is an enormous…

The CCBS to welcome a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow

Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar with interest in Japanese religions, rurality, depopulation, value economies, affect, gender, and materiality.

The CCBS welcomes a new member of the team; Sierra Humbert

Sierra Humbert has received a 3-year PhD scholarship from the Velux Foundations.

For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy

A genetic variation among some Greenlanders makes sugar healthy – significantly more than for most people. According to a new study by University of Copenhagen researchers and their colleagues, gut bacteria and a unique…

After thousands of years, an iconic whale confronts a new enemy

The iconic tusked whale of the Arctic has a new enemy – noise. A unique study from the University of Copenhagen and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources shows that narwhals are highly affected by noise from ship…

Danes have reduced meat consumption – but we lag behind other Europeans

A major new survey on meat consumption in Europe reports that Europeans have a growing appetite for plant-based foods and that meat consumption has dipped. While this applies to Denmark as well, Danes lag behind the…

Researchers use diamonds to comprehend the foundation of Earth’s continents: "Without it, humankind wouldn’t exist"

Deep beneath Earth’s crust lies a rocky upper mantle that stabilizes the planet’s continents and is among the primary reasons for the existence of life on Earth. In a new study, researchers from the University of…

Algorithm reveals the mysterious foraging habits of narwhals

An algorithm can predict when narwhals hunt – a task once nearly impossible to gain insight into. Mathematicians and computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen, together with marine biologists in Greenland, hav…

Ancient air bubbles speak to a much warmer Antarctica during the ice-age than once believed

Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice age were markedly different than what the leading science once suggested. This is according to new research in which the…

The CCBS welcomes a new member of the team; Stephen Christopher

Stephen Christopher has received the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme, European Commission.

Proven: Historical climate changes occurred simultaneously in several parts of the world

A new study published by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and partner institutions has proven that repeated and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age occurred simultaneously in South America,…

Climate change resulting in bigger and more destructive hurricanes in the USA

During the last 100 years hurricanes have become more frequent and more destructive, new research from the University of Copenhagen shows.

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Researchers from the section Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) have succeeded in making a method to enlighten an otherwise dark period in climate history.

New center at the University of Copenhagen to predict climate tipping points

Current climate models are unable to predict sudden and violent changes to climate, known as tipping points.

Massive impact crater from a kilometre-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland

An international team lead by researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen have discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the…

Earliest greenlanders had whale for dinner

Test pit in the midden at Fladstrand, East Greenland, with bone remains and a clearly visible stratigraphy. Copyright and credits: Jens Fog Jensen (jens.jensen@snm.ku.dk), Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum…

Greenland mud to ensure the world's food supply

A new research project headed by Professor Minik Rosing from the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, will investigate whether "glacial rock flour" from Greenland can revitalize degraded lands and prevent…

European asylum-colonialism?

Article by AMIS affiliate Martin Lemberg-Pedersen

CBMR is part of a large Inuit study published in Science magazine

The researchers detected that the most significant changed gene variants were involved in omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism.

Greenland is melting – the past might tell what the future holds

A team of scientists lead by Danish geologist Nicolaj Krog Larsen have managed to quantify how the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to a warm period 8,000-5,000 years ago.

Mining no shortcut for Greenland

Greenland would benefit most by permitting a limited number of mines, operational for a limited number of years, in a limited number of areas, concludes a new report compiled by the University of Copenhagen and…