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How did the Andes Mountains get so huge? A new geological research method may hold the answer

How did the Andes – the world's longest mountain range – reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen may be able to…

New department head at Geosciences and Natural Resource Management

Senior researcher and head of section, PhD Vivian Kvist Johannsen will take up the position as head of department at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management beginning 1…

Danmarks Geologipris goes to Globe researcher

The Geological Society of Denmark has awarded their annual ‘Denmark’s Geology Prize’ to Associate Professor Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen from GeoBiology. Christian receives the award for his unique contribution to the…

New PhD Thesis

Prince Martin Gyekye's PhD thesis offers new insight into the impacts of floods on soil erosion and urban land use

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.

Early forests did not change the atmospheric CO2 level very much

Earth scientists from University of Copenhagen have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet.

Ancient ice reveals scores of gigantic volcanic eruptions

Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to the University of…

Researchers puncture explanation for largest increase of biodiversity in Earth's history

The greatest increase in marine biodiversity on Earth was not due to the explosion of an asteroid, as previously believed. In fact, the explosion caused the development of new animal species to stagnate for a period of…

Researchers use diamonds to comprehend the foundation of Earth’s continents: "Without it, humankind wouldn’t exist"

Deep beneath Earth’s crust lies a rocky upper mantle that stabilizes the planet’s continents and is among the primary reasons for the existence of life on Earth. In a new study, researchers from the University of…

Flint stone sounds suggest a Stone Age settlement in Copenhagen’s Svanemøllen Harbour

A new method has made it possible for University of Copenhagen researchers to register mysterious sounds from the sea at Svanemøllen Harbour, most likely originating from chipped-away flint tools of an unknown Stone Age…

Volcanic eruptions may explain Denmark’s giant mystery crystals

Researchers have long been stumped for an explanation of how tens of millions of years-old giant crystals known as glendonites came to be on the Danish islands of Fur and Mors. A recent study from the University of…

Enormous potential: Deep groundwater could heat half of Denmark

A sea of untapped potential lies deep beneath Denmark. Hot groundwater can be used to cover up to half of Denmark's heating needs according to a comprehensive mapping conducted by, among others, researchers at the…

Large meteorite exhibited during the winter holidays

The Geological Museum in Copenhagen now exhibits a big piece of the meteorite that landed in a parking lot in Herlev Saturday night at 22 o’clock on February 6 2016. More meteorite pieces have already been sent for…

World’s first geoscience video channel

Today sees the launch of the world’s first online video channel focusing on the geosciences.