New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…
New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…
Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet” Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…
Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet” Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…
María Carro Pitarch María Carro Pitarch is a PhD Candidate at the International Law Department at the University of Valencia (Spain) and Lecturer in EU Law.
Nature’s future pharmacy in peril For thousands of years, people have relied on the healing properties of plants – in some places they are still the only freely available remedies to this day. Half of the drugs approved worldwide in the last four decade…
Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance About a year ago, our Cities in Global Climate Governance early career researchers’ (ECR) group took up a project to begin reviewing all of the contemporary global urban climate governance literature.
New publication: Inter-Risk Framing Contests A group of DISTRACT researchers have recently published a new article in the field leading journal SOCIOLOGY, entitled Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during…
A time machine for anticipating bird diversity Genetic bird data shows patterns of trait diversity over the distant past and under a previous period of dramatic global climate warming. A new study identifies trait combinations and trait-sets associated with…
New global health research projects about climate change and health in 2023 Danida Fellowship Center has granted the Global Health Section at the University of Copenhagen 30 million DKK for three new climate change and health related research projects in Tanzania, Kenya, and Bangladesh.
Nuggets mined from thousands of tweets can persuade us to eat more climate-friendly Experience and opinion trump fact in Twitter conversations about sustainable food. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers demonstrate that natural language algorithms make it possible to identify people's…
Nuggets mined from thousands of tweets can persuade us to eat more climate-friendly Experience and opinion trump fact in Twitter conversations about sustainable food. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers demonstrate that natural language algorithms make it possible to identify people's…
Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen March 3 at 1 pm in Copenhagen Plant Science Center Auditorium A2.11.01 - CPSC1, entrance via Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C
DKK 20 million from the A.P. Moller Foundation to the green transition In the future Geocenter Denmark with the participation of IGN will be able to collect seismic data and knowledge about the underground for use in the green transition and for the training of students.
Dawoon Jung Visiting Stay: March 2023 Dr Dawoon Jung is a Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and an associate editor of the Asian Journal of…
Dawoon Jung Dr Dawoon Jung is a Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and an associate editor of the Asian Journal of International law.
The highest Greenland temperatures in 1000 years Recent high temperatures on the ice sheet in central and northern Greenland lies are unique, when compared to 1000 years of reconstructed climate conditions on the ice sheet.
What the heck are pulses? European unawareness stands in the way of this “green” superfood European consumption of pulses doesn’t stack up against national dietary recommendations – with Denmark in last place. This is the finding of a new EU-funded study by the University of Copenhagen as part of the…
Christoffer Ousager The role of International Law in accommodating Climate Action in the European Union
BBC Interview with Maria Pettersson Maria Pettersson, partner in the FutureArcticLives project, in interview with BBC News about the plight of reindeer herders in the face of the Arctic industry boom.
Researchers reject 30-year-old paradigm: The emergence of forests did not reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere For more than 30 years, researchers throughout the world have assumed that the emergence of forests on the planet reduced the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. But this is not the case, a new study concludes. The insight…