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Jesica López wins the Agenda 2030 Award for her research on the endangered Amazon rainforest. Carbon capture, end-of-life care and death cafés are also recognised in this year's edition. When the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University had to choose this year's winner of the Agenda 2030 Award, the steering board was faced with a difficult choice between many qualified entries. This year's a
For over 60 years, scientists have tried to determine whether plants are pollinated primarily during the day or at night — without reaching a clear conclusion. Now, a major research review from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that nighttime pollinators play just as significant a role as daytime species in 90 percent of the cases studied. Most of us know how important bees, birds, and butter
https://www.science.lu.se/article/nocturnal-pollinators-just-important-their-daytime-colleagues - 2026-07-23
A new research project aims to enhance educators' skills for nurturing inner resilience and reducing climate anxiety of learners through trauma-informed and creative approaches that link inner and outer dimensions of transformation. It is led by Lund University in collaboration with many partners. The motivation for the project is based on the fact that much sustainability and climate education te
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University are launching a collaboration focusing on India and South Asia. The long-term collaboration will include both research and analysis and aims at building a strong research environment of internati
Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies" has now been published in The Sage Handbook of Global Sexuality. According to professor Hendrik Wagenaar at Kings College in London it is a "seminal typology of prostitution policies"
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Zahid Shahab Ahmed's two-year research project, funded by United States Institute of Peace, involving nine case studies of peace education interventions from Khyber to Karachi in Pakistan has been published by the Institute. With an eye to the theory that radicalization is a function of social and political marginaliz
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/special-report-peace-education-pakistan - 2026-07-23
Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now, BECC researcher Louise C Andresen among others, are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional carbon sink in the long term. As forests age, their uptake of CO2 declines and, each time forests are planted, there is a risk of additional carbon bei
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/planting-trees-not-always-effective-way-binding-carbon-dioxide - 2026-07-23
Idag lider cirka 20 000 svenskar av Parkinsons sjukdom men ännu finns bara symptomlindrande behandlingar. Genom en ny biobank får forskarna tillgång till 1 000 parkinsonpatienters genetiska profiler tillsammans med utförlig information om deras livsstil och sjukdomshistoria. – Jag är övertygad om att många forskare kommer att använda biobanken de närmsta åren, vilket kan leda till utvecklingen av
https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-biobank-ger-insikter-om-parkinsons-sjukdom - 2026-07-24
Många av oss har jobbat mer på distans under pandemin än vad vi någonsin drömde om att göra. Informatikforskaren Saonee Sarker har studerat distansarbete och dess påverkan på livspusslet i flera år, men då främst med fokus på IT-världen. I dag ser hon hur den branschens digitala arbete har förflyttats till att omfatta oss alla. Bokhyllorna i Saonee Sarkers arbetsrum på Ekonomicentrum i Lund gapar
https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/informatikprofessorn-om-den-hybrida-arbetsplatsen-och-balansen-mellan-jobb-och-fritid - 2026-07-23
Per Augustsson, Enrico Ronchi, Mikkel Brydegaard, Andreas Nord och Yafa Shanneik har tilldelats det prestigefyllda anslaget ERC Consolidator Grant. Enrico Ronchi, forskare i brandteknik, utvecklar nya sätt att skapa en inkluderande evakueringsdesign för byggnader. Det handlar om att hitta nya sätt för nödutrymningsvägar som är anpassade även för utsatta grupper som äldre och personer med funktions
https://www.lu.se/artikel/fem-lundaforskare-far-erc-consolidator-grant - 2026-07-24
Många av oss har jobbat mer på distans under pandemin än vad vi någonsin drömde om att göra. Informatikforskaren Saonee Sarker har i flera år studerat distansarbete och dess påverkan på livspusslet, men då främst med fokus på IT-världen. I dag ser hon hur den branschens digitala arbete har förflyttats till att omfatta oss alla. Bokhyllorna i Saonee Sarkers arbetsrum på Ekonomicentrum i Lund gapar
https://www.lu.se/artikel/suddigare-granser-mellan-jobb-och-fritid - 2026-07-24
COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilient communities. Professor Emily Boyd at Lund Unive
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-emily-boyds-expectations-cop29 - 2026-07-23
Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed. Young growing forests store a lot of carbon, as the forest gets older the carbon sequestration capacity decreases. When trees are f
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-07-23
Lund University is hiring 45 new assistant professors and visiting professors this spring. The initiative, which involves just over SEK 30 million in university-wide funding, represents a significant boost to operations – not least at the Faculty of Social Sciences, which is welcoming nine of the new recruits. The number of applications for Lund University’s international recruitment drive was hig
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/unprecedented-interest-international-recruitment - 2026-07-23
With the help of mirrors, placed only a few hundred nanometers apart, a research team has managed to use light more efficiently. The finding could eventually be useful for controlling solar energy conversion during photosynthesis, or other reactions driven by light. For example, one application could be converting carbon dioxide into fuel. The sunlight that hits Earth for one hour is almost equiva
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-take-first-step-towards-controlling-photosynthesis-using-mirrors - 2026-07-23
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the future. The study is published in Nature Communications. The sunlight that hits Earth during one
https://www.science.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2026-07-23
Solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the future. The study is published in Nature Communications. The sunlight that hits Earth during one hour corresponds roughly to humanity’s total energy consumption
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2026-07-23
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed. Young growing forests store a lot of carbon, as th
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-07-23
Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed. Young growing forests store a lot of carbon, as the forest gets older the carbon sequestration capacity decreases. When trees are f
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-07-23
