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Significantly reducing agricultural CO2 emissions by way of wheatgrass

Wheatgrass has the potential to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Denmark by up to 10 percent according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Carlsberg Research Laboratory. Over the next five…

Significantly reducing agricultural CO2 emissions by way of wheatgrass

Wheatgrass has the potential to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Denmark by up to 10 percent according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Carlsberg Research Laboratory. Over the next five…

Kerttu Maria Peensoo

Developing a Method for High Resolution Water Isotope Measurements in Ice Cores Supervisors: Vasileios Gkinis, Yang Zhang, Thomas Blunier

New invention can reduce agricultural pesticide use: Distinguishes harmful insects from helpful ones

A researcher from the University of Copenhagen has developed an algorithm that, in tandem with a sensor, makes it possible to distinguish crop-harming insects from helpful ones that pollinate and contribute to plant…

Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections internationally

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen gathered the data from the ice cap in 2015, and this work has now come to fruition in the form of more exact predictions of local climate conditions.

Thawing permafrost cools Arctic streams: This might affect fish stocks

A new study by a University of Copenhagen researcher finds that thawing permafrost in Alaska causes colder water in smaller rivers and streams. This surprising consequence of climate change could affect the survival of…

Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes

Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where Greenland temperatures rose between 5 and 16 degrees Celsius in decades.

Climate labeling reduces our CO2 footprint — even for those who willfully attempt to remain uninformed

Climate labels informing us of a meat product’s carbon footprint cause many people to opt for climate-friendlier alternatives. This applies to people who are curious about a product’s carbon footprint, as well as to…

New documentation: Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated

The claim that old-growth forests play a significant role in climate mitigation, based upon the argument that even the oldest forests keep sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, is being refuted by researchers at the…

Successful symposium on Arctic carbon and nitrogen dynamics - ArCaN-21

CENPERM organizes international symposium gathering international experts on Arctic ecosystems

Ruth Julia Ladwig

Community Earth System Model climate under Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time

For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland's ice sheet that are so large and well preserved that they can be seen with the naked eye. The fossils reveal several million years of details abou…

Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time

For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland's ice sheet that are so large and well preserved that they can be seen with the naked eye. The fossils reveal several million years of details abou…

An epic walk: 15 million years needed for dinosaurs to get from South America to Greenland

For the first time, two researchers—one from the University of Copenhagen and the other from Columbia University—have accurately dated the arrival of the first herbivorous dinosaurs in East Greenland. Their results…

Prominent professor named as Head of Scientific Research at Denmark’s National Centre for Climate Research

Floods, cloudbursts, heatwaves; the climate of the future will be more extreme. On assuming the position of Head of Scientific Research at the National Centre for Climate Research at DMI on 1 March 2021, renowned…

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Peter Birch Sørensen in new expert committee

A Danish expert group to determine the framework for a uniform CO2e tax has now been set up. Department of Economics take 2 of the 6 seats in the expert proup.

Arctic permafrost releases more CO2 than once believed

There may be greater CO2 emissions associated with thawing Arctic permafrost than ever imagined. An international team of researchers, including one from the University of Copenhagen, has discovered that soil bacteria…

Misguided sense of balance exacerbates climate scepticism

Many of us may have inadvertently contributed to the growing climate scepticism of recent years, a widespread phenomenon fuelled by “system errors” built into journalism, social media and parliamentary debates. A new…

19.5 Mio to Crops For The Future

Professor Birger Lindberg Møller is a key collaborator in a new Semper Ardens project focusing on Sorghum with Carlsberg Research Laboratory and University of Queensland, Australia.

Wood formation can now be followed in real-time - and possibly serve the climate and builders of tomorrow

A genetic engineering method makes it possible to observe how woody cell walls are built in plants. The new research in wood formation, conducted by the University of Copenhagen and others, opens up the possibility of…

Ella Jacobsen

Analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of plastics in the Baltic Sea Supervisor: Markus Jochum

David Aaron Soestmeyer

Local temperature reconstruction from gas trapping processes in the Dye 3 ice core from Greenland Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Your organic waste will be upcycled to fertilise fields

Researchers behind a major EU project will develop technologies that make it easier to convert organic waste in our compostable trash bags into fertiliser. UCPH researcher says that agriculture sector needs to tackle…

Lara Möllney

Patterns of Dust-borne Iron Fertilization at the Last Glacial Maximum Supervisor: Markus Jochum