News

Green data

2024.03.26

Health data storage has a climate cost. In the future data may be stored in DNA

A lot of energy is required to analyse and store large amounts of data. We may therefore have to…

Green medicine

2024.03.26

Waste products could innovate pharmaceutical material design

Research highlights the potential for utilizing molecules extracted from side stream products in…

animal production

2024.03.21

Researcher: Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year – but a ban is not the solution

Annually, the global egg industry kills seven billion day-old male chicks because they don’t lay…

Geology

2024.03.21

New geological study: Scandinavia was born in Greenland

The oldest Scandinavian bedrock was 'born' in Greenland according to a new geological study from th…

Cost-benefit analyses

2024.03.08

Economists: Ecosystems have higher monetary value than previously calculated

Current economic practice systematically underestimates the value of nature, according to an…

Methane

2024.02.29

Young researcher makes surprising methane discovery in Yukon glaciers: "Much more widespread than we thought"

Global melting is prying the lid off methane stocks, the extent of which we do not know. A young…

Foods of the future

2024.02.27

Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for "meat-like" proteins

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have not only succeeded in using blue-green algae as …

Sustainability

2024.02.26

Robots, monitoring and healthy ecosystems could halve pesticide use without hurting productivity

Smarter crop farming that combats weeds, insect pests and plant diseases by integrating modern…

archaeology

2024.02.19

Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia

Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, Epipalaeolithic…

CLIMATE CRISIS

2024.02.09

Easy solutions are rarely the answer to society's climate challenges

It can sometimes seem like we're making problems unnecessarily complicated when we, as a society,…

Sustainability Science Centre

Health data storage has a climate cost. In the future data may be stored in DNA

Waste products could innovate pharmaceutical material design

Researcher: Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year – but a ban is not the solution

New geological study: Scandinavia was born in Greenland

Economists: Ecosystems have higher monetary value than previously calculated

Young researcher makes surprising methane discovery in Yukon glaciers: "Much more widespread than we thought"

Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for "meat-like" proteins

Robots, monitoring and healthy ecosystems could halve pesticide use without hurting productivity

Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia

Easy solutions are rarely the answer to society's climate challenges