News about Climate

New research centre puts focus on political mobilisation and protest

A new research centre under the Department of Sociology will shed light on the growing numbers of civic protests targeting issues such as social injustice, discrimination and climate change.

Maliha Khan

Forbush Decreases and Atmospheric Parameters

Helene Pehrsson

Title: Marine outlet glacier dynamics in Greenland

Marie Cecilie Boysen

Godfrey’s Island Rule and the Indonesian Through Flow

Jesper Baldtzer Liisberg

Abrupt climate change and the nitrogen cycle

The future is knocking: Global food production to be transformed using new technology

The world’s growing population and increasing human welfare will necessitate a 30-70% increase in food production over the next three decades. At the same time, the huge quantities of food needed must be produced in suc…

Ambitious EU climate efforts could increase greenhouse gas emissions in the rest of the world

The more the EU economy succeeds in dialing down greenhouse gas emissions, the more the rest of the world will turn them up – unless a similar level of green ambitions is shared by others. Up to 61.5% of the saved EU…

Researchers go cuckoo: Antarctic penguins release an extreme amount of laughing gas

In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that penguins in Antarctica emit copious amounts of nitrous oxide via their feces. So much so, that the researchers went "cuckoo" from bein…

Is the corona pandemic supporting or crowding out the attention towards green transition?

New grant: Researchers from Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) will investigate how the corona crisis affects the climate change debate on three major social media platforms in Scandinavia.

Violent rivers of meltwater may have carved Greenland's 'Grand Canyon'

Rapid climate change and enormous amounts of ice and meltwater may have excavated a nearly 800-kilometer long canyon beneath Greenland's ice cap, the origins of which have long been the subject of discussion.

Enormous potential: Deep groundwater could heat half of Denmark

A sea of untapped potential lies deep beneath Denmark. Hot groundwater can be used to cover up to half of Denmark's heating needs according to a comprehensive mapping conducted by, among others, researchers at the…

Artificial intelligence may be the secret weapon in the climate fight

Massive climate change alters the world’s ecosystems every day, but we lack effective digital tools to monitor, simulate and predict events. Two SCIENCE professors – from Computer Science and Geosciences – have joined…

New Danish and Icelandic Ocean Research Center

New ocean research center opens at the University of Copenhagen with support from the Carlsberg Foundation. The center is led by Professor Katherine Richardson from the GLOBE Institute.

Kasper Tølløse

Development and implementation of a neural network based PBL turbulence parameterization scheme

Janani Venkatesh

An improved Gas-CFA system for methane measurements and preliminary results from the Dye-3 ice core

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Studies Of Dansgaard-Oeschger Climate Events From Greenland Ice Cores

New discovery about harmful particles: "We have found a fundamental shortcoming in air pollution models"

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a surprising phenomenon in a process by which certain gas molecules produce harmful particles. The impact of this phenomenon is likely to increase in urban…

Carsten Rahbek receives DM Award

Carsten Rahbek, Director of The Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, has been awarded the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award.

Sociologists to investigate experiences with climate-friendly food

Sociologists will look into experiences with climate-friendly food and social norms around the meal. The new research project is a collaboration between Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, and Denmark’s…

Laurits S. Andreasen

Time scales of the Bipolar seesaw: The role of oceanic cross-hemisphere signals, Southern Ocean eddies and wind changes

Knowledge of the origin of the food makes it taste better

Food we are familiar with tastes the best, but if we know where the food comes from and how it is made, it actually gets better, even if we don’t think the taste is spot on. New research from the Future Consumer Lab at…

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.

Estelle L. Ngoumtsa

A new reconstruction of climatic impurities in the Sub-Antarctic region - Continuous Flow Analysis of the SubICE firn cores: Mertz, Siple, Bouvet, Peter-First, Young

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.