News about Climate

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…

Seminar at the Green Solution Center

Seminar at the Green Solution Center: ”Grønne skove, grønne løsninger: Skovrejsning og grøn omstilling”

Isaac Weldon: How societal systems shape global health outcomes

Meet Isaac Weldon, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Presentation and workshop with the Danish Coastal Authority

Anne Sofie Beer Nielsen and Kristoffer Albris visited the Danish Coastal Authority in Lemvig on the 21st of October. As part of the visit, Anne Sofie and Kristoffer gave a presentation of the research done in the Coasta…

PhD defence of Feng Long

Feng Long on defending her PhD thesis titled: “The Fraxinus excelsior mycobiome".

How can we effectively monitor the world’s tree resources down to the level of individual trees?

TreeSense focuses on the critical role of trees in terrestrial ecosystems, such as climate regulation, biodiversity support and local livelihoods. Both climate change and human management have drastically altered tree…

Pablo Pellon Ricciardi

The regulation of different types of renewable hydrogen in the EU and its member states.

Students join forces to tackle climate distress among youth

On 7-9 September 2024, the University of Copenhagen’s annual global health case challenge “Global Health Solutions” brought together a diverse group of students from various disciplines.

New study on September 2024 floods in Central Europe

Researchers Emmanuel Raju and Nick Baumgart from the Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen have contributed to a new study on the mid-September 2024 floods in C. Europe, titled "Climate change and high exposur…