2023.01.25
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News fra Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
climate
2022.12.21
Rwandan tree carbon stock mapped from above
Trees
2022.12.15
Santa’s finally got a Christmas tree farm in Greenland
Climate
2022.11.16
Arctic vegetation has a major impact on warming
Coastal protection
2022.10.25
Disappearing coastlines: A smartphone and selfie stick can let us know by how much
Climate
2022.10.25
By leaving garden waste alone, we could store 600,000 tons of CO2 per year
Clima
2022.10.18
Vibrating trucks searched for Denmark's future underground CO2 storage sites
Plants
2022.09.09
Two grains, mutual gain: surviving drought through varietal collaboration
Arctic
2022.08.23
Popular research station reopens in Greenland: Danish zoologist recognized the greenhouse effect at same site in 1904
Greenhouse gas
2022.08.04
Wildfires affect the greenhouse gas balance of tundra heath ecosystem
Green transition
2022.06.20
New pioneer centre paves the way for the green transition in agriculture
Greenhouse gases
2022.05.23
New measurements from Northern Sweden show less methane emissions than feared
Geology
2022.05.06
Telling actual time in ancient rocks
Geology
2022.03.25
Groundbreaking earthquake discovery: Risk models overlook an important element
Environment
2022.02.28
Deforestation reduces fruit and vegetable consumption in rural Tanzania
climate
2022.02.21
290 million new city dwellers benefit China's climate balance
Insects
2022.02.21
Insect wingbeats will help quantify biodiversity
Geography
2022.01.24
Satellite images reveal a nexus between war, cropland abandonment and food insecurity in South Sudan
Geology
2022.01.19
The early Earth may have behaved more like Venus
Natural History
2021.11.10
Researchers puncture explanation for largest increase of biodiversity in Earth's history
Archeology
2021.09.16
Researchers find conclusive evidence: A large Stone Age settlement is buried in Svanemøllen Harbour
Arctic
2021.08.27
Arctic expedition unexpectedly discovers the most northerly island on Earth
Tundra fire
2021.08.17
Fire increases nutrient availability as well as N2O and CO2 production in Arctic tundra soils
GEOLOGY
2021.08.13
Researchers use diamonds to comprehend the foundation of Earth’s continents: "Without it, humankind wouldn’t exist"
Natural History
2021.07.15
Dinosaurs lived in a warmer and more dynamic climate than previously thought
CLIMATE
2021.07.12
Researchers: Let crop residues rot in the field – it’s a climate win
Geology
2021.05.26
Geological riddle solved: Roof of the World has gotten higher
Climate
2021.05.25
Robert Frei from IGN receives 6.2 mio. DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark
Archeology
2021.05.25
Flint stone sounds suggest a Stone Age settlement in Copenhagen’s Svanemøllen Harbour
Book
2021.05.10
New edition of The ice-free Greenland – from molecule to landscape
FARMING
2021.04.16
New invention can reduce agricultural pesticide use: Distinguishes harmful insects from helpful ones
CLIMATE
2021.04.15
Researchers examine which trees are movable when climate change evicts them from their original habitats
Geography
2021.04.12
Thawing permafrost cools Arctic currents: This might affect fish stocks
FORESTS
2021.03.25
New documentation: Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated
symposium
2021.03.19
Successful symposium on Arctic carbon and nitrogen dynamics - ArCaN-21
Dinosaurs
2021.03.09
An epic walk: 15 million years needed for dinosaurs to get from South America to Greenland
Technology
2021.03.08
How robotics will affect humanity and nature in the future
climate
2021.02.09
Arctic permafrost releases more CO2 than once believed
prizes
2021.02.01
Rasmus Fenger-Nielsen receives Geography talent prize for his PhD thesis
Villages
2021.01.28
New report: Villages should spur their own development
Permafrost
2021.01.22
Permafrost promotes warmer headwater streams
Forests
2020.12.22
Droughts, viruses and road networks: Trends that will impact our forests
CLIMATE
2020.12.17
Arctic Sea ice decline and plant growth
CLIMATE
2020.12.10
Can an abundant green mineral solve our climate crisis? Exploring the power of Olivine
Climate
2020.11.26
Satellite images confirm uneven impact of climate change
Energy
2020.11.17
Report: In retrospect, the burning of wood in district heating plants has resulted in climate savings
CARBON BALANCE
2020.10.23
Higher temperatures and more snow lead to higher release of CO2 from heaths in Greenland
TREES
2020.10.20
Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara
Geology
2020.10.14
Volcanic eruptions may explain Denmark’s giant mystery crystals
CLIMATE
2020.10.12
Research in biodiversity and biomass receives a boost of 120 million DKK
Permafrost
2020.10.01
Plants forage for deep nitrogen in the High Arctic
CLIMATE
2020.09.08
Researchers awarded with prize for inventory of climate threats to Greenland’s cultural heritage
CLIMATE
2020.09.04
Geographer receives 1.7 million. Euro in an ERC Starting Grant
Technology
2020.08.05
Spy satellites reveal: Marmots flee agricultural areas
Architecture
2020.06.15
Researchers: Homes of North Zealand’s elite are most likely to be preserved
PhD defense
2020.05.19
PhD defense Rasmus Fenger-Nielsen
Greenhouse gas
2020.05.14
Researchers go cuckoo: Antarctic penguins release an extreme amount of laughing gas
PLANTS
2020.05.06
Will new research necessitate a rewrite of biology texts? Green plants collect carbon using fungi
Sustainable energy
2020.04.30
Enormous potential: Deep groundwater could heat half of Denmark
Climate
2020.04.22
Artificial intelligence may be the secret weapon in the climate fight
Nature Climate Change
2020.04.01
Lower estimates of Arctic methane emissions thanks to upland soil microbes
GEOPHYSICS
2020.03.26
Geologist and Postdoc Hemin Yuan receives great recognition from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for his work on mapping the physical properties of rocks
THE ORIGINS OF EARTH
2020.03.11
Meteorites from the outer Solar System created Earth’s oceans
ElieForsk prize 2020
2020.02.27
ElieForsk prize 2020
chemistry
2020.01.13
Researchers find that a new family of copper binding proteins is involved in fungal copper regulation
Forestry
2019.12.19
A sustainable future for Danish Christmas trees – with fewer fallen needles
Geoscience
2019.12.04
New study confirms that Egtved girl and Skrydstrup woman were most likely from afar
Climate change
2019.12.03
Loss of CO2 from subarctic heath ecosystem under climate change treatment
Geography
2019.11.06
Soviet collapse saved the atmosphere from 7 billion tonnes of CO2
Climate change
2019.10.25
Winter Arctic Carbon Emissions: an important component of the year-round carbon budget
greenhouse gas
2019.09.30
Uptake of methane in Greenlandic heath
CLIMATE
2019.06.25
Climate change is already affecting food production worldwide
CLIMATE
2019.04.05
Your car tires are clearing the rainforest in Cambodia
KLIMA
2019.03.01
Melting ice sheet transports sand worth billions
Climate
2019.02.14
Greenland could advance economic prosperity through sand
Geography
2019.02.11
CO2’s silver lining fades away: Agriculture makes Earth seem greener
PhD defence
2019.01.03
PhD defense Mojtaba Karami
cloudburst
2018.11.25
Free tool helps predict if the next downpour will flood your basement
CLIMATE
2018.11.12
New discovery: The Greenland Icesheet emits methane to the atmosphere
Stormwater runoff
2018.10.30
110 litres of urban stormwater cleaned every second
EXCELLENCE
2018.09.20
Outstanding PhD student from IGN receives honor
CLIMATE
2018.09.10
Satellite observations reveal secrets of dry tropical forest greening
2018.09.10
Summer warming causes enhanced root growth in Arctic wetland
Climate change
2018.08.24
A new permafrost gas mysterium
MSc projects
2018.06.25
MSc projects announcement
PhD defense
2018.06.08
Samuel Faucherre has defended his PhD thesis
2018.05.16
Remains project publishes film of their field work
CLIMATE
2018.05.16
Farmlands feature greater woody cover than savannas in semi-arid West Africa
2018.04.23
Magnus Kramshøj has defended his PhD thesis
CLIMATE
2018.04.17
New tool to monitor aboveground vegetation carbon stocks
2018.04.12
Annual report 2017
Sustainable projects
2018.02.22
Sustainable projects in Ghana and South Africa for 20 million Danish kroner
PhD defence
2018.02.01
Stefanie Cable has defended her PhD thesis
Sustainability
2018.01.30
The result of a visiting PhD at IGN covers the front page of Nature Sustainability
Scientific Reports
2018.01.26
The weather surprises
Hans Egede Medal
2018.01.12
Bo Elberling honoured with Hans Egede Medal
PhD thesis defence
2018.01.11
Sarah Svendsen has defended her PhD thesis
SUSTAINABILITY
2017.12.14
New project sheds light on the impact of European consumers on land use elsewhere in the world
ERC Consolidator Grant
2017.11.28
Two ERC consolidator grants
2017.11.20
Sand as a an economic value for the Greenlandic society
Biomass
2017.11.08
New laboratory at Copenhagen Plant Science Centre will investigate a recently discovered group of enzymes
CLIMATE
2017.10.05
75-year-old aerial photos reveal that Greenlandic deltas have grown as a result of the warmer climate
EXCELLENCE
2017.10.03
Outstanding PhD (Feng Tian’s) student from IGN receives honor
CLIMATE
2017.09.19
Center for Permafrost continues its research for another four years
FUNDING
2017.09.14
The Center for Permafrost continues its research for another four years
PhD thesis defence
2017.08.23
Morten Dencker Schostag has defended his PhD thesis
PhD thesis defence
2017.08.14
Nynne Rand Ravn has defended her PhD thesis
CLIMATE
2017.06.26
The University of Copenhagen contributes to the largest global restoration of forests and forest landscapes in history
CLIMATE CHANGE
2017.06.09
Greenlandic amphibian shows that climate played a key role in the distribution of life on Earth 208 million years ago
BIODIVERSITY
2017.06.06
New map of life on Earth shows how we can halt the worlds sixth great extinction
GEOLOGY
2017.03.10
Fossil eggs from Portugal show a very slow evolution of the crocodile-like eggs since the Late Jurassic
CLIMATE
2017.03.08
Africa has become greener the past 20 years
REVERSE PHOTOSYNTHESIS
2017.01.10
Photosynthesis turned upside down by researchers over the next 3 years
ARCTIC RESEARCH.
2016.12.13
The Earth releases more CO2 to the atmosphere when temperatures rise
ARCTIC RESEARCH.
2016.12.12
The Earth releases more CO2 to the atmosphere when temperatures rise
With climate change
2016.08.22
Nitrogen fixation stimulates plant growth
ECOSYSTEMS
2016.06.06
New professor of ecosystems and environmental sustainability at IGN
Climate change creates more shrub vegetation
2016.05.18
Increased vegetation in the Arctic may counteract global warming
Stable isotope analysis of rump hair
2016.04.25
Muskoxen rump hairs
CONFERENCE
2016.04.18
The DIABOLO project: Forest Information for Bioeconomy Outlooks
A new study led by members of CENPERM,
2016.04.06
Long-distance transport of iron and sediments
Plant gasses possibly dampen
2016.04.05
Plant gasses can counteract arctic climate change
Danish and Greenlandic
2016.03.07
REMAINS has started
Life on Earth
2016.02.15
Oxygen was present in the atmosphere much earlier than previously assumed
NEW RESEARCH
2016.01.19
Egtved Girl chosen as best research of 2015
Jurassic climate
2015.12.11
Knowledge gap on extreme change in temperature elucidated
Climate
2015.11.04
The most vulnerable countries miss out on climate change knowledge
Applied research
2015.09.30
Palle Madsen has been appointed Professor in silviculture
The right tree
2015.09.08
The right tree for the right place in Africa
Shrub growth tundra biome climate
2015.07.22
Sensitivity of shrub growth in the Arctic
EUROPEAN LANDSCAPES
2015.07.01
EU-project prepares “Roadmap” for the sustainable use of European landscapes
NEW PhD PROJECT
2015.07.01
Do children with ADHD benefit from nature?
Savannas effect on CO2
2015.05.22
Savannas affect the level of CO2 in the atmosphere
2015.05.22
Climate change increases emission of volatile organic compounds from subarctic plants
New professor
2015.05.13
New professor in socio-economic structures and living conditions in development countries
Evolution of seawater
2015.04.22
Tracing the oceans chemical composition through geologic time
Professor in human geography
2015.04.13
New professor in urbanization and regional development
Heat produced by
2015.04.08
Arctic heating from within
Disturbed Ecosystems
2015.03.26
Increased sensitivity to climate change in disturbed ecosystems
More than 20% of Earth’s terrestrial surface is underlain by permafrost
2015.03.05
New Nature paper provides insight to microbial life in permafrost
2015.03.03
Sheep in Greenland
2015.02.23
New Head of Department at Department of Geosciences and Natural Research Management
Net regional methane sink
2014.12.12
Northeast Greenland is a sink for atmospheric methane
Christmas trees
2014.12.04
Cloned Christmas trees can help reduce pesticide use
Rapid permafrost collapse shifts Siberian tundra to a methane source
2014.11.25
Siberian permafrost collapse
Climate changes
2014.11.05
New professor is going to take part in uncovering the consequences of climate changes in the Arctic
Geophysics
2014.10.23
Danish scientist elected as Fellow of Geological Society of America
Professors of Geology
2014.09.11
Seven Professors of Geology appointed at IGN
NEW SCIENCE DOMAIN LEADER
2014.09.05
Danish researcher appointed Science Domain Leader at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi
NEW PROFESSOR
2014.08.06
New Professor of Human Geography
Stevns Klint
2014.06.27
Geologists from KU contribute to the inclusion of Danish cliff on the World Heritage List
Outstanding Student Poster Award
2014.06.20
Geology PhD student wins prestigious award
GREEN spaces
2014.04.24
New Professor of Plants and Planting Design
New Professor
2014.04.04
New Professor of Landscape Architecture
Det nyeste nummer
2014.03.24
Geografisk Orientering
New Website for the Department
2013.12.16
New websites unite and disseminate knowledge
Professor in Geophysics Hans Thybo
2013.12.04
President for European Geosciences Union
Strategy
2013.10.22
New strategy ready for IGN
Oxygen
2013.09.26
Earth's history to be rewritten
Tropical forest
2013.09.16
Tropical forest growth depends on nitrogen fixing trees
2013.09.04
A golden jubilarian in the middle of the woods
Event
2013.09.04
Become wild about nature on Nature Day at the Forest & Landscape College in Nødebo
2013.08.14
Important visitors at Arctic Station and CENPERM
Climate
2013.07.28
New knowledge about permafrost improving climate models
Professor Emil Makovicky
2013.05.02
The Carl-Hermann Medal for Emil Makovicky
Associate Professor in Geophysics, dr. scient. Irina Artemieva
2013.04.22
President of Geodynamics Division
2013.04.09
International World Conference on Teak announce 2013 as Year of Teak
Professor of Geophysics, Hans Thybo,
2013.04.04
Member of Danish Natural Sciences Academy
2013.01.15
A new institute gathers knowledge about geography, geology, forest and nature management and landscape architecture and planning
2012.12.18
Fellow of Geological Society of America
2012.12.12
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management has a new temporary website
2012.11.16
Biological processes on glacier and ice sheet surfaces
2012.07.07
CENPERM i Polarfronten - in Danish
2012.04.17