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In May and June 2020, more that 300 dead elephants were found in Botswana´s Okavango Delta. Initially it was suspected that poaching was the reason, but it was later shown that they were poisoned by cyanobacteria. This is an increasing environmental problem, and recent work to create a global dataset on algal blooms shows significant changes in the last twenty years. Toxic algal blooms in water, k

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/mapping-lacustrine-algal-blooms-globally - 2026-09-21

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fredrik-soderbaum-rethinking-development-cooperation-africa-changing-world - 2026-09-21

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/swedevs-first-phd-conference-space-critical-and-dynamic-discussion - 2026-09-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan village” on Friday 4th October. For her PhD project, Anna Berglund spent 13 months in a Rwandan village studying the consequences of agricu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-09-21

During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The boreal forests form a single biome that spans the entire Northern Hemisphere. These forests play a key role in the global climate system by absorbi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-field-study-shows-how-climate-change-affects-fire-impacted-forests - 2026-09-21

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/giant-curtain-will-help-scientists-study-threats-against-cloud-forests - 2026-09-21

Reducing energy imports and mitigating climate change are often portrayed as complementary. However, new research shows that while ambitious climate policies would lower energy imports, energy independence would not bring significant climate benefits. Originally published on IIASA web site Ambitious policies to reduce energy imports would have little impact on climate change, and these energy inde

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/energy-independence-will-not-bring-enough-climate-benefits-study - 2026-09-21

Almost one fourth of Sweden’s last unprotected old-growth forest was logged between 2003 and 2019. At this rate, all of these ecologically unique and valuable forests will be lost in about 50 years. These findings add to the growing body of evidence for widespread cryptic forest degradation across the global north. A small fraction of Sweden’s forests consists of older forests which have never pre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-uncovers-widespread-and-ongoing-clearcutting-swedish-old-forests - 2026-09-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tourism researcher Dianne Dredge comes to Campus Helsingborg as part of gender equality initiative. Senior lecturer Erika Andersson Cederholm applied for funding of a visiting professor in Hedda Andersson's name.– We could definitely become more gender equvalent here at the department when it comes to professors, says

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/dianne-dredge-service-management-visiting-professor - 2026-09-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles-study-finds - 2026-09-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Should patients with separate variants of type 2 diabetes be treated with different types of drugs? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital will attempt to answer that question in a new study. Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world. It is estimated that over

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-personalized-type-2-diabetes-treatment-launched - 2026-09-21

The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal. However, a new study that pieces together evidence stretching back 9,000 years, suggests that the current changes aren’t unique, and that a reversal may not be in the cards after all. The study is pub

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/earths-magnetic-poles-not-likely-flip-study - 2026-09-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, researchers are able to prove that there is an optimal speed for certain insects when they fly. At this speed, they are the most efficient and consume the least amount of energy. Corresponding phenomena have previously been demonstrated in birds, but never among insects. Previous studies of bumbleb

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-changes-our-view-flying-insects - 2026-09-21

More than half of our genome consists of transposons, DNA sequences that are reminiscent of ancient, extinct viruses. Transposons are normally silenced by a process known as DNA methylation, but their activation can lead to serious diseases. Very little is known about transposons but researchers in an international collaboration project have now succeeded for the first time in studying what happen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-sheds-light-darker-parts-our-genetic-heritage - 2026-09-21

During the pandemic, the free COVID Symptom Study app has helped researchers understand the complexity and spread of the corona virus better. “The study has exceeded our expectations since its launch in Sweden in April 2020. Participants from all over Sweden got involved and many of them have spent one minute every day answering questions about their health”, says Maria Gomez, Professor of physiol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-tracks-spread-covid-19-sweden - 2026-09-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A study published in The Lancet HIV shows that HIV-2 is more pathogenic than previously demonstrated. The new findings indicate that early treatment should be applied to all patients with HIV, not only to those with HIV-1. “The study is unique in that we have followed cohort of study participants frequently over a lon

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/long-term-study-shows-hiv-2-deadlier-previously-thought - 2026-09-21

16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of our contemporary globa

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/global-china-summer-school-2025-china-circuits-global-extractivism - 2026-09-21

The 7th Nordic Development Research Conference (NorDev) was held the 21-23 August in Uppsala. The title for the conference was “Co-creation for transition towards a sustainable society” and was organised by Uppsala University and the Swedish Development Research Network (SweDev). The NorDev2023 gathered around 170 participants and covered panel topics related to the co-creation between researchers

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/maria-eriksson-baaz-it-important-raise-discussions-around-inequalities-and-colonial-heritage - 2026-09-21

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/european-association-chinese-studies-summer-school-2023-call-applications - 2026-09-21

CMES will host two events on democracy and gender-just peace in the MENA region (in Swedish) on July 6 during the Almedalen week in Visby. All welcome! Please note that the events will be held in Swedish! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-par

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen - 2026-09-21