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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…