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New podcast with Riikka Rinnan

New podcast with Riikka Rinnan VOLT's centerleder, Professor Riikka Rinnan, var for nylig inviteret til at deltage i en dansk podcast "Videnskab fra Vilde Hjerner", hvor hun diskuterede centerets formål samt…

Romain Chuffart

Romain Chuffart is the Nansen Professor in Arctic Studies (2024 and 2025) at the University of Akureyri in Iceland where he specializes in the rights of Indigenous peoples, international human rights law, international…

Trees are key to better nutrition and climate in Malawi

Today, poor quality diets are the largest contributors to global morbidity, with one in three people suffering from a form of malnutrition. In countries like Malawi, where a large percentage of households depend on…

New article from our collaborators at Leiden University

During early afforestation stages, biotic and abiotic soil characteristics change at different paces.

New researcher at CLIMA - Meng Zhang

Dr. Meng Zhang is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the RIGHydro project, focused on promoting green hydrogen deployment through regulatory innovation to support the green transition in Denmark, the EU, and beyond.

Webinar on CliCNord - the Main Findings: Full Recording

On June 6 2024, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, along with University College Copenhagen and University of Copenhagen hosted a presentation of the main findings of the CliCNord project.

We are all Storytellers: Art and Narrative as a tool for climate and humanitarian communication at the Red Cross Climate Centre

Raramai is a former MSc Global health student at University of Copenhagen. She specialised in Disaster Risk Management as part of her studies and now works as a consultant at The Alliance of Bioversity International and…

Silva Nova will participate in the IUFRO Congress in Stockholm on June 23-29, 2024

Silva Nova will participate in the IUFRO Congress in Stockholm on June 23-29, 2024

New EU Grant on Green Hydrogen Transport Transition in the North Sea Region

CLIMA´s project is funded by Interreg Europe. The project aims to enhance and accelerate hydrogen development, especially in the transport sector, across the North Sea Region.

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fibre from sugarbeet waste sees the light of day at the University of Copenhagen – a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature. In…

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fibre from sugarbeet waste sees the light of day at the University of Copenhagen – a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature. In…

Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world

COPE Director Emmanuel Raju and Global Health Student Nick Baumgart are co-authors of the report titled "Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world", that first…

Climate change and plant growth on the Tibetan Plateau

Global warming over the last three decades has significantly altered patterns of plant growth on the Tibetan Plateau.

AI method reveals millions of dead trees hidden among the living before California’s historic 2020 wildfires

University of Copenhagen scientists may have found a new explanation for the California wildfires of 2020. Applying AI to detailed aerial photos, they created a unique dataset detailing mortality down to single trees fo…

Archaeologists to contribute to major new research project on ancient DNA

Professor Eske Willerslev has been awarded a grant of up to DKK 585 million by Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to study ancient environmental DNA. Researchers from the Near Eastern Archaeology section wil…

The Cresco Capital Award 2024

Congratulations to Marie Louise Dornonville de la Cour Bergmann for being awarded with the Cresco Capital Award 2024

A Surge of Attention - Presentation at POLLEN conference

On the 10th of June, the Coastal Conflicts project presented preliminary research findings at the POLLEN conference at the University of Lund, Sweden. The presentation revolved around a study of political and social…

Ingi Poulsen

Ingi is an Icelandic attorney with over 15 years of experience in litigation, focusing on environmental law and human rights law.

"Translating climate science for international law": COPE hosts the second multidisciplinary workshop in Copenhagen

After kicking off their collaboration in Amsterdam in June 2023, a multidisciplinary group of scholars working in the fields of Climate Science and International Law got together in Copenhagen on 23 and 24 May 2024 to…

Large household survey conducted in the four small towns

The household survey, with more than 1200 respondents in total, was conducted in the four small towns in Ghana and Burkina Faso during April and May 2024.

Avocados are 'bad' and vegans are ridiculous: How we justify eating too much meat

Those of us who find it difficult to eat less meat for the sake of climate tend to apologize or justify ourselves in social contexts. And… shaming vegans isn’t off limits. This, according to a new University of…

Local bright spot among melting glaciers: 2000 km of Antarctic ice-covered coastline has been stable for 85 years

A whaler's forgotten aerial photos from 1937 have given researchers at the University of Copenhagen the most detailed picture of the ice evolution in East Antarctica to date. The results show that the ice has remained…

Visiting the field: community entry and outline of small-town dynamics

Initial field site visits in early 2024 supported a first understanding of small-town development, natural resource use, services, critical infrastructures and areas of social and environmental vulnerability.

Now we know, what gets roots to grow: Can help in future droughts

A biological mechanism familiar to people who fast helps plant roots grow strong. The discovery by University of Copenhagen scientists provides an answer to a long-unanswered question and a deeper understanding of the…