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.
Open World Conference 10-11 Nov. 2022: Open Science and Global Dangers Marking the centenary of Niels Bohr’s Nobel Prize in physics, and the United Nations announcing 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, we acknowledge Bohr’s vision of an open world
Kristoffer Albris gives conference presentation on inter-risk framing contests Assistant professor Kristoffer Albris gave a conference presentation based on the paper "Inter-risk framing contests: The politics of issue attention among Scandinavian climate NGOs during the coronavirus pandemic",…
New collaboration between the University College Copenhagen and University of Belize COPE researcher Rico Kongsager from the University College Copenhagen just returned from Belize, where he, together with his colleague Maren Egedorf, are in the initial phase of establishing a collaboration with the…
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…
High temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the summer of 2022
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…
Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan From mid-June until the end of August 2022, large parts of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoonal rainfall, leading to large parts of the country being flooded.
Not all covid-19 lockdowns improved air quality in world cities Contrary to what one might expect, air quality did not improve during mild covid-19 lockdowns in all cities. In fact, the emission of harmful gasses from transport has in some places increased, even during stringent…
Plant-based foods: New specialisation in the MSc Programme in Food Science and Technology We have to get better at processing plants into climate-friendly foods, while at the same time focusing on nutrition, health, and taste. That’s why we, at the University of Copenhagen, are offering a specialisation in…
Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans Copenhagen recently defaulted on its pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2025. This early failure in the global race to net zero emissions may foreshadow backtracking by other target-setters, indicating that pledges to…
Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…
Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…
New field expedition to Ecuador A new expedition to Ecuador from the Villum Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity aims at enhancing the understanding of biodiversity hotspots by collecting data from birds.
Two grains, mutual gain: surviving drought through varietal collaboration Some draw water from the soil’s depths, while others absorb nutrients nearer to the surface with shallow, wide root systems. Fields of grains with mixed properties could be the future for farmers hoping to protect their…
Ngo Ying Lo Title: The Need for Speed - An Investigation of bottlenecks towards optimization of EC-Earth3-HR (on CRAY XC50) Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Emma Karin Lyeteg Lund Embodying Systems Thinking: An in-depth investigation into five climate change-professionals’ experience of Alexander Technique Supervisors: Lise Tjørring and Anders Svensson
Elloise Jensen Fangel-Lloyd Title: Fewer storms as a consequence ofclimate change - Decreasing baroclinicity observed in Lorenz energetics and EOF analyses of climate data Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen and Eigil Kaas
Katharina Scheidt Title: Modeling Paleotemperatures from Stable Nitrogen Isotopes with the Community Firn Model Supervisors:Dr. Vasileios Gkinis, Dr. Michael Döring & Dr. Guido Vettoretti
Listening is survival ROCS postdoc Angela Rawlings is co-curator of SPHERE Festival which opens 2 September in Canada.
Biodiversity cradles and museums: New study on speciation-extinction dynamics The distribution of old and young species brings new insight into the speciation-extinction dynamics operating in global hotspots of biodiversity.