News about Climate

Fixin’ to be flexitarian: Scrap fish and invasive species can liven up vegetables

Greening the way we eat needn’t mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to “boring” vegetables. University of Copenhagen gastrophysicist Ole G.…

Living and Working through Heatwaves in Urban Chennai- Field Reflections

Globally heat is becoming an urgent disaster that needs to be acted upon. Heatwaves are progressively becoming more severe with increasing frequency.

Spencer Williams

Arctic Shipping: Climate Implications and Climate Effects from a Canadian Perspective

Increased CO2 emissions from world’s tundra surprise researchers

As they warm, Arctic tundra environments will probably release 30% more CO2 than they do today – an increase that is nearly four times more than previously estimated. This is the conclusion of a large international stud…

New Nature paper: Tundra ecosystems breathe heavier with rising temperatures

New Nature paper: Tundra ecosystems breathe heavier with rising temperatures VOLT has contributed to a large international article that documents persistently increasing ecosystem respiration (release of CO2 from soil…

Matthew Hatton presents insights from StrathE2EPolar

FutureArcticLives monthly seminars revived with a presentation by Matthew Hatton on the insights from StrathE2EPolar - a strategic modelling tool for ecosystem-based fisheries management – focusing on West Greenland.

Small towns in Tanzania matter to villagers’ ability to cope with climate change!

Recent studies show that improved links between Tanzanian towns and villages improve rural life. Small town growth by 300% in 20 years aids rural communities in weathering climate changes.

Visit from Professor Steven Allison

On Tuesday April 16th, VOLT had the pleasure of a visit from our collaborator Steven D. Allison, Professor of Ecology, University of California Irvine. He held a seminar on “Scaling microbial traits from populations to…

Irene Livia Kruse

Chasing the Storms - A Simulation and Observation-Based Exploration of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Cold Pools, from the Midlatitudes to the Tropics Supervisor: Jan O. Härter

Michele Betsill receives ISA award for her pioneering environmental policy research

For her contributions as a scholar, teacher and mentor in the field of environmental politics, professor Michele Betsill was named a Distinguished Scholar at this year's International Studies Association conference in…

Jannik Höller

Development of a Deep Learning Approach for the Segmentation of Convective Cold Pools in Satellite-Observable Data Supervisor: Jan O. Härter

Computer scientists show the way: AI models need not be SO power hungry

The development of AI models is an overlooked climate culprit. Computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen have created a recipe book for designing AI models that use much less energy without compromising…

Global N2O emissions from our planet

N2O is a very potent greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. The production and therefore emissions are greatly influenced by anthropogenic activities such as agriculture...

Dan Bodansky

Daniel M. Bodansky is a preeminent authority on global climate change whose teaching and research focus on international environmental law and public international law. He teaches courses in international law and…

Health data storage has a climate cost. In the future data may be stored in DNA

A lot of energy is required to analyse and store large amounts of data. We may therefore have to take a different approach to data storage in the future. So says a professor Søren Brunak at the University of Copenhagen.

Waste products could innovate pharmaceutical material design

Research highlights the potential for utilizing molecules extracted from side stream products in food and oil industry in the context of pharmaceutical innovation, showcasing the power of interdisciplinary research in…

Visit from Professor Mark Potosnak

On Monday 11th, VOLT had a visit from Prof. Mark Potosnak whose research focuses on interactions between climate change, plants and air quality.

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Olivier Rubin

We would like to invite you all to the inaugural lecture by the newly appointed Professor Olivier Rubin on April 5th 2024, at 14:00 (CET) in Building 25, room 25.1-035, at Roskilde University.

Unlocking oceanic mysteries

ROCS oceanographers dive into the significance of the bottom boundary current south of Iceland!

Young researcher makes surprising methane discovery in Yukon glaciers: "Much more widespread than we thought"

Global melting is prying the lid off methane stocks, the extent of which we do not know. A young researcher from University of Copenhagen has discovered high concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas in meltwater…

Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for "meat-like" proteins

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have not only succeeded in using blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for a new protein – they have even coaxed the microalgae to produce "meat fibre-like" protein strands…

Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for "meat-like" proteins

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have not only succeeded in using blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for a new protein – they have even coaxed the microalgae to produce "meat fiber-like" protein strands…

Bridging climate science with humanities

A complex interplay between facts and emotions Do identity and political attitudes affect our perception of climate change and our incentive to act? According to PhD Andrea Veggerby Lind, the answer is a resounding YES…

Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia

Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic peoples harvesting vegetation from the wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds that would…