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Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people to sacrifice unique "sun stones"

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show…

Coastal Conflicts presents findings to Policy Fellows at Queen Mary Center

How do we deal with rising water levels and storm surges in Denmark? This question was raised by current and former policy fellows as the Queen Mary Center at UCPH gathered the alumni network at the Danish Architecture…

Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice

It is expected that the 2,800 meter deep ice core drilling down to the bedrock under the Antarctic ice sheet for the first time will reveal crucial details about the earth's climate and the history of the atmosphere mor…

Welcome to our new PhD Fellows

The OxyMiST project greets our two new PhD fellows today – Niels Gudmand Christiansen and Marie Hesse.

Media portrayals of climate advocates to be explored

New research project from the Department of Political Science will investigate who speaks out in the media about fighting climate change and what impact these people have on public attitudes towards climate change.

One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This rare, natural flooding…

One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This rare, natural flooding…

Warming temperatures may shrink wetland carbon sinks

An international team of scientists buried 19,000 bags of green tea and rooibos in 180 wetlands across 28 countries to measure the ability for wetlands to hold carbon in their soil, known as wetland carbon sequestration…

Successful PhD and postdoc conference at IGN

The Global Wetland Center was well represented at IGN's PhD and postdoc conference 2024.

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc fellowship for 2 exciting projects.

Economist wants to shed light on corporate waste

How is a company's waste production and recycling affected by owners, managers, employees and lenders? Professor Morten Bennedsen will investigate this in a new project supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Mikkel Langgaard Lauritzen

Modeling the Greenland Ice Sheet’s Flow and Mass Loss From Past to Present Advisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Climate election: The weather shapes who is voting and what they are voting for

A new study shows how climate disasters influences election results by making voters think about climate change.

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Technology Special Edition

CLIMA's seminar on April 10, 2025, at the University of Copenhagen offers students and junior researchers a chance to present their work on climate, energy, and sustainability.

Adam Orford

Adam D. Orford teaches at the University of Georgia, specializing in environmental law and decarbonization, and leads Georgia’s National Zoning Atlas work.

Andrea Tronci

Andrea Tronci is a PhD fellow in Legal Sciences at the University of Cagliari. The doctoral dissertation investigates the role of administrative discretion in the new Italian public contracts code (d. lgs. 36/2023).

Emanuele Guarna Assanti

Emanuele Guarna Assanti is a postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Law at the University of Calabria in Italy.

Jacques Hartmann

Jacques Hartmann holds a PhD from Cambridge, has taught international law, and worked as a Legal Officer at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Serena Fabbozzo

Serena Fabbozzo is a PhD candidate at the University of Turin, researching the EU’s "Do No Significant Harm" principle and industrial symbiosis.

Kolja Leon Kypke

Tipping in the Greenland ice sheet, Noise, rate and chaos Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

Is moss the boss?

VOLT’s Kathrin Rousk just got over 3 million DKK from DFF (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond) for an exciting new project that will look into the interactions between moss and cyanobacteria. You can read the official summary…

Bridging the rhetoric of science and activism in environmental crises

What is scientist activism? Frederik Appel Olsen who defended his PhD thesis in December 2023, conducted at the Section for Rhetoric at the Department of Communication, is deeply interested in how scientists navigate…