By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 10 May 2021 Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) now announces funding for one doctoral studentship, where the doctoral student is admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science at the Faculty of Science, and is enrolled in the Agenda 2030 graduate school.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/project-funding-researchers-apply-doctoral-studentship-environmental-science-within-agenda-2030 - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 25 May 2021 PhD student Sofia Blomqvist and her dog Ylle look for bumblebees and other pollinating insects. This summer, Lund University doctoral student Sofia Blomqvist will be investigating how pollinating insects such as bumblebees and solitary bees are faring in flower-rich roadside habitats. However, there i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/bumblebee-detection-dog-research-duty - 2025-05-07

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 2 July 2021 Helena Hanson, researcher. Photo: Anna Maria Erling. They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbeing by functioning as social green spaces. Now she strikes a blow for

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/urban-private-gardens-promote-biodiversity - 2025-05-07

By lotte [dot] billing [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Lotte Billing) - published 12 August 2021 Climate researchers Markku Rummukainen and Kimberly Nicholas are interviewed about the latest UN climate panel report. Photo by NOAA on Unsplash. Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC repre

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 21 September 2021 Large scale drought hit Sweden in 2018. The picture shows a field in Gotland. Photo: Sten-Åke Stenberg/Mostphotos. 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

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/more-carbon-soil-could-protect-harvests-future-climate - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 22 October 2021 Image: IStock 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 201

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-05-07

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 27 October 2021 John Falk presents his dissertation on how combustion affects cloud droplet and ice particle formation in the atmosphere. Photo: Eberhard Grossgasteiger, Unsplash Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ice-particles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2025-05-07

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 11 November 2021 Embroidery and photo by Maria Blasi 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

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 17 November 2021 Plane trees in Slottsparken in Malmö. Photo: Anna Maria Erling. 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 L

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/choice-trees-carries-great-significance-city-insect-life - 2025-05-07

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 14 February 2022 In her dissertation, Ivette Raicec Cruz emphasizes the importance of communicating scientific uncertainty. Photo: Istockphoto/BrianAJackson Scientific advice to decision makers requires transparent scientific assessments, in which communication of uncertainty is important in order to avoid over

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/important-express-scientific-uncertainty - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 13 December 2021 In a new report from Lund University, researchers observed that honey bees compete with wild bees for flower resources. Photo: Sandra Lindström. 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 h

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/wild-bees-and-honey-bees-compete-food - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 14 February 2022 Insects detected included many important species such as bees, moths, flies, beetles, wasps and ants. Photo: Photorama/Pixabay. 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 fr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 28 February 2022 The researchers emphasise that the need for climate adaptation. Here a village in Demak Regency, Indonesia, surrounded by water due to rising sea levels. Photo: Aji Styawan / Getty Images Climate Visuals Grant recipient. On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publish

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-panel-world-must-act-now - 2025-05-07

By stina [dot] lundkvist [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Lundkvist) - published 18 March 2022 In the Safeguard project, researchers are working together to reverse the loss of wild pollinators in Europe. Photo: Stina Lundkvist 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 c

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participates-international-research-project-protect-wild-pollinators - 2025-05-07

Published 9 March 2015 Dr Dan Metcalfe is co-author to a Nature paper now out, based upon his work with the Global Ecosystem Monitoring Network. From observations across a network of forest plots in the Amazon basin, the study finds that tree keep growing but cut back on respiratory metabolism during severe drought.This remarkable result suggests that trees maintain their short-term competitive ed

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/drought-impact-forest-carbon-dynamics-and-fluxes-amazonia - 2025-05-07

Published 27 April 2015 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/smart-built-environment-new-strategic-innovation-area-sweden - 2025-05-07

Published 27 April 2015 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 - 2025-05-07

Published 28 April 2015 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 - 2025-05-07

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 2 May 2022 Fluorescent microscope image of control MBP-positive oligodendrocytes (in green) co-stained with alpha-synuclein (in red). It is possible to observe neurites positive for alpha-synuclein. Photo Credit: Carla Azevedo. Researchers from Lund University, led by Dr. Laurent Roybon, are working to further define u

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/new-findings-may-lead-way-future-therapeutic-approaches-parkinsons-disease-and-similar-diseases - 2025-05-07

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 11 May 2022 iStock/Jolygon Frontotemporal dementia begins relatively early compared to other forms of dementia. We still know relatively little about what causes the disease, however, new research from Lund University in Sweden shows that the folds in the brain that are formed in the latter stages of pregnancy coul

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brain-folds-formed-during-foetal-stage-could-affect-onset-dementia - 2025-05-07