News about Climate

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

Wildfires affect the greenhouse gas balance of tundra heath ecosystem

New CENPERM study on impact of wildfires published in Global Change Biology

Cheese-based ‘magic dust’ will make you love plant-based meals

Food researchers from the University of Copenhagen will, in collaboration with Lactosan A/S, investigate how cheese in powder form can boost umami taste and mouthfeel (kokumi) in plant-based food. The researchers will…

Giulia Sinnl

Improved ice-core chronologies and synchronization of climate records for a better understanding of the global climate Supervisor: Sune Olander Rasmussen Co-supervisors: Raimund Muscheler & Mai Winstrup

Congratulations to Giulia Sinnl

Congratulations to Giulia Sinnl at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 7 July 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Huge Power-to-X investments in new hydrogen-based fuels shall propel the green transition in Denmark towards 2050. But how do we prevent local conflicts over new production plants?

Helene Pehrsson

Master's project: Greenland in a warmer world: A modelling study of the Greenland ice sheet Supervisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

How to see the forest and the trees

PhD student Mar Moure shares learnings and impressions from this year's IUFRO Risk Analysis conference "Socio-ecological conflicts in forest management: risks of (not) adapting?".

Green and sustainable food should become the automatic choice

One of the main obstacles to introducing a more climate-friendly food culture in Denmark is the many everyday barriers. So says Professor Bente Halkier, who researches everyday life.

Peter Valentin Ukkonen

Improving the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency of atmospheric radiative transfer computations by using machin elearning and code optimization Supervisor: Eigil Kaas, (NBI) and PhD Kristian Pagh Nielsen (DMI)

Martin Froelund

Perturbation Methods in Ensemble Weather Forecasts Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

Simon Peter Heselschwerdt

An analysis of the consistency between observed atmospheric winter variability and weather anomalies in the North Atlantic region Supervisor: Jens H. Christensen

New type of extremely reactive substance in the atmosphere

For the first time, an entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been discovered under atmospheric conditions. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, in close collaboration with international…

Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather

A Danish astrophysics student at the Niels Bohr Institute has used a mathematical approach to unveil how global temperature increase engenders locally unstable weather on Earth.

New measurements from Northern Sweden show less methane emissions than feared

It is widely understood that thawing permafrost can lead to significant amounts of methane being released. However, new research shows that in some areas, this release of methane could be a tenth of the amount predicted…

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…

Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education welcome Richard Staley

Professor Staley is pursuing projects on climate change and the history of AI as well as the making of modern physics

Wildfires: When nature strikes back politically

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, anthropologists will investigate how the extensive rainforest wildfires in 2019 in Amazon politically affected Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.