News about Nature and environment

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…

Student project grants 2022/2023

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Deyang Xu receives grant from DFF

Green research on the rapeseed cake as healthy protein-rich food for human consumption.

New Grant: Preventing local conflicts over storm surge protection

Assistant professor at SODAS and Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris has received a 2.9 million grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s (DFF) pool for green research

New projects will map conflicts over coastal protection in Denmark and environmental mobilisation in Indonesia

Two projects at the Department of Anthropology have received grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark earmarked green research.

Join iGEM2023 - we are recruiting now!

You can become part of a team like Netlantis and compete in the World Championship in Synthetic Biology for students next year. We are recruiting for our iGEM2023 team right now - deadline for applying is December 15,…

By leaving garden waste alone, we could store 600,000 tons of CO2 per year

We Danes shuttle nearly a million tons of garden waste from our gardens every year. But we would be doing the climate a great service if we just left it alone, according to the calculations of University of Copenhagen…

By leaving garden waste alone, we could store 600,000 tons of CO2 per year

We Danes shuttle nearly a million tons of garden waste from our gardens every year. But we would be doing the climate a great service if we just left it alone, according to the calculations of University of Copenhagen…

Disappearing coastlines: A smartphone and selfie stick can let us know by how much

New mobile phone technology makes it possible to better monitor Danish coastlines, which recede up to four meters a year in some places. The method, which has been tested by the University of Copenhagen, also lets…

New Master Student at UCPH

Jakob Klinge Meier started as Master Student in Mette Nicolaisens group

The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and PhD student Nikolaj Schultz have published the article ‘The ideal of freedom in the Anthropocene: A new crisis of legitimation and the brutalization of geo-social conflicts’ in…

Vibrating trucks searched for Denmark's future underground CO2 storage sites

Seismic studies of the deep soil layers in northwest Zealand will help researchers locate soil formations suitable for storing captured CO2 in the near future. The University of Copenhagen is supplying academic expertis…

Speech by Head of Department Svend Christensen for PLEN's 10-year anniversary

PLEN celebrated 10 years of science, education and collaboration in agricultural science, biotechnology and environmental sciences at University of Copenhagen on 14 October 2022. In his anniversary speech, Professor…

AU recruits PhD Student Julie E. Andersen

Julie just started in Prof. Anne Windings group.

Congratulations with the PhD degree Christa

The structure-function relationship in the Nitrate and Peptide Transporter Family’

Greatest increase in animal species can help us understand and control ocean deoxygenation

Deoxygenation can make large areas of the ocean uninhabitable. New study offers knowledge of how oxygen levels affect marine life – this may help us preserve marine ecosystems. “In the past 50 years, we have already los…

DTU recruits PhD Student Adele Pioppi

Adele just started in Prof. Ákos Kovács' group.

Welcome to Fangfei!

PhD in transportomics - Villum Investigator project

New students 2022-2023

MSc, Interns and PUK students in DynaMo

NCSU recruits new postdoc Raven Bough

Raven just started in Assist. Prof. Oliver Baars' group

New revelations about an ancient fish: the secret to swimming upside down

An after-hours trip to Aarhus University Hospital Skejby’s radiology department has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world’s rarest – the Coelacanth. Researchers from the…

Shiwen Yang - new PhD student

Transporter identification and characterization

Hanne Rabe - DAAD intern

3 months internship working on beneficial bacteria

Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses

A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies. The longer a female fly carcass has lain and rotted, the greater the male’s lust. This, according to a new study led by researchers…