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Farming practices that result in higher levels of carbon in agricultural soils could protect both wheat and barley harvests in a future changed climate. This is what emerges from a new study from Lund University in Sweden. However, the practices required are more costly for farmers in the short term, according to the researchers who argue for targeted environmental payments. Ongoing climate change

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/more-carbon-soil-could-protect-harvests-future-climate - 2025-10-05

On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last year's canceled conference, and the IPCC report released in August. As part of the Paris Agreement in 2015, it was decided that all nations would renew their climate pledges or national climate plans, so-called NDCs (Nati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-10-05

Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate. By affecting the atmosphere’s ability to form cloud droplets and ice particles, soot can dislodge the radiation balance. This according to doctoral student John Falk, who is currently working on his dissertation about cloud droplet and ice particle formation in clou

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ice-particles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2025-10-05

Lack of habitats and climate change – parameters that scientists know affect the number of pollinators in the world. But exactly how big is the effect and what else contributes to the decline of bees and bumblebees? This has Maria Blasi i Romero tried to find out in her dissertation which will be presented on November 26. A sure sign of spring is the buttery yellow rapeseed fields that every year

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2025-10-05

The type of tree you plant – whether you choose native or non-native species – is of great significance for insect life in a city, more so than researchers previously thought. This is what emerges from a new study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who investigated the parks in the city of Malmö. Trees are crucial to insects, birds and even people in a city. They lower the temperature, p

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/choice-trees-carries-great-significance-city-insect-life - 2025-10-05

Scientific advice to decision makers requires transparent scientific assessments, in which communication of uncertainty is important in order to avoid over- or underestimating conclusions. In her dissertation ”Robust analysis of uncertainty in scientific assessments”, doctoral student Ivette Raices Cruz, who recently defended her dissertation at Center for Climate and Environmental Science (CEC),

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/important-express-scientific-uncertainty - 2025-10-05

Increasing attention is being paid to the impact of honey bees on wild bees. In a new report from Lund University in Sweden, researchers observed that honey bees compete with wild bees for flower resources, and that more research and knowledge are needed to create the conditions for coexistence between bee-keeping and the conservation of wild bees in Sweden over the long term. In recent years, the

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/wild-bees-and-honey-bees-compete-food - 2025-10-05

Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA from 85 species could be identified. This offers scope for exploring a whole new way to monitor terrestrial biodiversity. These preliminary results was presented at Ecology Across Borders (13th-15th December) via an online poster by

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2025-10-05

On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a new report on how climate change is impacting nature and people worldwide, and on the necessity for adaptation. According to the researchers, more than three billion people live in environments that are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the same applies to many species. The researchers establish that thos

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-panel-world-must-act-now - 2025-10-05

CEC is one of 24 European research institutes and organizations that is participating in the EU-funded Safeguard project, where world-leading researchers and experts are collaborating to reverse the loss of wild pollinators in Europe. The project is unique as it takes an interdisciplinary holistic approach to both the problems and the solutions. Losses of wild pollinators in Europe continue. To de

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participates-international-research-project-protect-wild-pollinators - 2025-10-05

VINNOVA, Energimyndigheten and Formas have selected Smart Built Environment as one out of five new Swedish strategic innovation projects. The government and industry will initially invest up to 200 million SEK in the program over three years.The investments will cover research, development and innovation in the fields of digital infrastructure, business-driven applications and integration of proce

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/smart-built-environment-new-strategic-innovation-area-sweden - 2025-10-05

In the latest issue of LUM, Jonas Ardö, Senior Lecturer at our department, discusses how to make resources suffice in the Sahel region. Read the article here.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2025-10-05

Emma Li Johansson, PhD student, collaborates with Scientific American graphic science team for visualizing large scale land acquistions for their May 2015 issue. Read article in Scientific AmericanEmma Li Johansson staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emma-li-johansson-contributed-graphic-scientific-american - 2025-10-05

QS Top University ranking for 2015 places Lund University as the world's twentieth by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 20 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is an improvement from last year's position of 21. Lund University as a whole also climbs to rank #60, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 university" motto.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-20-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2025-10-05

ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data portal for a European-wide Greenhouse Gas monitoring network. It offers access to research data from ICOS scientists all over Europe, and provides facilities and IT resources supporting modelling activities for elaborated data products. Hello Alex Vermeulen! What is the Carbon Portal?– The ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data store of ICOS. ICOS is the Gree

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/carbon-portal-access-carbon-research-data - 2025-10-05

Findings from an international research group including Anders Ahlström (main author) and Ben Smith from INES, reveals news that changes the view on neglected areas: the semi-arid ecosystems has a key role in carbon cycling. The group has published their findings in Science. Terrestrial bioshere is absorbing about 1/4 of the carbon dioxide emissions from human activities. So far, rainforests have

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/semi-arid-ecosystems-play-key-role-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-10-05

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Embassy in Washington asked four experts on the Arctic. First to be asked is Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department. Watch her answer or watch all four expert answers.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/why-do-we-need-care-about-arctic-region - 2025-10-05

Daniel Metcalfe, associate senior lecturer at our department, has received a grant from the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for nature and environment in Lapland. The money is to enable him to investigate how grazing insects affect soil processes in the birch forests of Lapland. Visit Dan Metcalfe's staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/money-research-lapland - 2025-10-05

Ylva Persson, PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University, is conducting research on cloned trees. Her aim is to understand how the substances secreted by trees affects, and is affected, by climate. Ylva Persson studies the trees' volatile organic compounds (BVOCs).  It does not only give the plants their characteristic smell, but it also have other effects, such as

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/trees-communicate-and-affect-climate - 2025-10-05

The new ESA (European Space Agency) satellite SENTINEL-2 is now in orbit, producing preliminary test data. The satellites' sensor is unique in terms of having both high spatial resolution, as well as temporal resolution. Data from SENTINEl-2 is used by the Lund Earth Observation research group in their research.For more information, use the following links:https://scihub.esa.int/news/News00029http

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/esa-satellite-provides-remote-sensing-data - 2025-10-05