Green Lighthouse wins industry prize

The new lime green carbon-neutral university building,The Green Lighthouse, has just won a Danish Industry prize for building innovation.

See the article 'New university building is carbon neutral' here.

The Green Lighthouse was praised by the awarding body, DI Byggematerialer [Danish Industry Building materials- Ed.], for being a fantastic example of cooperation between actors throughout the industry.

Handful of scientists behind climate manipulation

Important issues like the negative effects of tobacco and global warming are being manipulated by a small and select group of scientists and institutions in the USA. So claims Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at the University of California, San Diego.

Oreskes refers to specific scientists and institutions including the Marshall Institute, known for creating confusion about the negative effects of tobacco during the 1980s.

Doubt is the product

Sea levels to rise faster, new studies show

The Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change IPCC undershot predictions of sea level change by around half a meter in the next century. This is according to research groups across the world, including scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen who have now reached a new independent consensus. This is according to science news site Insciences.org.

In 2007, the IPCC released the report that later became the scientific basis for the Copenhagen Climate Conference COP-15.

An Asian view on climate

Copenhagen is undeniably in the throes of a veritable climate frenzy. Now, The University of Copenhagen’s (U of C) Asian Dynamics Initiative and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) add to the fray with a climate seminar with an Asian focus.

On 8 December, there will be an inter-disciplinary climate seminar at NIAS, Leifsgade 33, 3rd floor, 2300 København S. The event is in English and everyone is welcome.

Link between climate and war

Copenhagen gets climate and food secretariat

A new global research initiative - headquartered in Copenhagen - is to address threats to agriculture and food security in a changing climate.

The Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) secretariat will be located at the Department of Agriculture and Ecology at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Life Sciences.

The Faculty of Life Sciences was chosen among a number of international applicants to host the secretariat.

Key role for Danish research

Climate volunteers wanted

Worried about the weather? You too can do your bit to fight global warming and other climate catastrophes by volunteering to take part in the alternative Climate Summit, Klimaforum09.

While politicians from all over the world meet in Copenhagen in December to discuss climate change, NGO’s and interested individuals from throughout the world will be gathering for their own climate talks.

Klimaforum09 will take place between 7 and 18 December, like the UN conference. The Klimaforum09 will take place in the Copenhagen sports centre DGI Byen.

No Danish necessary

Field day for sports science centennial

»I love this! I love sports, and this is such a nice day for it«.

Exercise and sport student Mette Jespersen (21) waves a bright red flag around in the air waiting for her running student colleagues.

Then her fellow students come running. They swoop past her red flag.

We are at the hundred-year anniversary of the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences (Institut for Idræt, IFI) - a celebration that is intended to keep on running until 2010 takes over the baton.

Lord Mayor supports new giant campus project

The huge Copenhagen Campus plans are both feasible and worthwhile. This could be the conclusion of the symposium held by the private think-tank behind the study, ThinkTankTalents, Friday, 27 August.

Diverse authorities gave their support to the project at the event, which was held at the old Carlsberg Brewery site in Valby.

»We will do our best at the City Hall to support the work of ThinkTankTalents«, promised Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen.

Making the plan come alive

Teams pull up their socks for DHL relay dash

Last year’s number two team on the University of Copenhagen ranking has everything to prove after it had its victory stolen from it in 2009. ‘Black Saturns’ of the Niels Bohr Institute will turn up this year as ‘The Tachyons’, with four out of five runners the same.

Team leader Kim Splittorff of The Tachyons says that the replacement team member is »just as strong as the guy who left. We are just as fast as last year. We all train regularly, including some of us together in the high energy physics group,« he says.

Faster than the speed of light

Ice sheet drilling hits bedrock

For researchers at the NEEM drilling project on the Greenland ice sheet, hitting rock bottom has taken on a new meaning. On Tuesday July 27 the giant drills reached bedrock at a depth 2537.36 metres.

The aim of the NEEM project is to learn more about the warm Eemian climate period which is seen as an analogue to current climate change.

And the last 2 metres of ice above the bedrock contains rocks, pollen and other material that has not seen the light of day for hundreds of thousands of years.

Ice can help predict future climate change