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After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, but the feeling is that most people experienced it as a successful event. To take the pulse during the symposium itself, we did a couple of short interviews with some of those who were there. Satisfied organisers Josefin

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/voices-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-11-19

Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pattern, but we can't say for sure that this particular event is worse because of climate change"? Weather attribution is a new phenomenon that is changing this. Climate scientist Wilhelm May at Lund University helps us ge

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-11-19

A new international study shows that ice loss in the Arctic is leading to increased evaporation from Arctic marginal seas, such as the North Sea, and that the increased atmospheric moisture has clear consequences for precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere. It is well known from research that climate change has contributed to a doubling of temperatures in the Arctic compared to the global average

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/melting-arctic-sea-ice-affects-precipitation-patterns - 2025-11-19

(By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024)Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-11-19

Hydrogen is expected to play an important role in the transition to a climate-neutral society. Although hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas with a direct climate impact, there are large knowledge gaps about its indirect impacts on the climate and environment. The Horizon Europe-funded research project HYway aims to fill these gaps. We spoke to David Wårlind from Lund University who is leading one of

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-project-fills-knowledge-gaps-climate-impact-hydrogen-emissions - 2025-11-19

Almedalen Week is Sweden’s biggest political meeting place with a week full of seminars, speeches, meetings and get togethers. Some of our MERGE researchers are seen at different events in Almedalen, Gotland this year. Hur anpassar vi Sverige till en varmare värld?When: Tuesday 1 July, 9.00-12.00Patrick Samuelsson, SMHI, is one of the speakersRead more about the event hereKlimatfrågor och stålprod

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-almedalen-week - 2025-11-19

Summer may be extending longer into the season, but we still have changed the name of our annual meetings in September to Autumn meetings. And this year autumn showed itself in full effect when ClimBEco students arrived by train from the north and the south into Helsingborg on 25-27 September and getting ready for this autumn meeting entitled “The Nature of the Urban: Sustainability challenges in

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-autumn-meeting-2024 - 2025-11-19

A new study from Lund University has, for the first time, reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age. The study shows that the regional climate is influenced by the sun and offers opportunities to better predict future climate conditions in certain regions. Raimund Muscheler is co-author of the article and is an active researcher within MERGE and BECC. For the first time, a research team

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/suns-activity-influences-natural-climate-change - 2025-11-19

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places. Until now, it has been unclear how far back in time the climate phenomenon extends. But in a new study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an international team of scientists has established that El Niño and the Southern Oscillatio

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-changing-el-nino-oscillation-least-250-million-years-old - 2025-11-19

Over the last 40 years, the majority of the world’s lakes have changed colour, according to a new study. The research team analysed 32 million satellite observations from over 67,000 lakes. Major changes in the lake ecosystems are thought to be the cause. Lakes are critical components of Earth’s ecosystem. They provide habitats for aquatic and terrestrial species, support biodiversity and help mai

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/lakes-worldwide-are-changing-colour-possibly-due-human-impact - 2025-11-19

On October 6-8 MERGE researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to meet in Kalmar. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting in Kalmar 6-8 October 2014.We are looking forward to meet all MERGE researchers in Kalmar for three exciting days of presentations and discussions on our MERGE science. We are now at the end of the first 5-year period of MERGE and at the door of a new time of collabora

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/welcome-merge-autumn-meeting-2014 - 2025-11-19

El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean seesaws between warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) phases. This reshuffles rainfall patterns, unleashing floods, droughts and storms thousands of miles from the Pacific origin. The 1997-98 and 2015-16 El Niño events, for instance, brough

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/consecutive-el-ninos-are-happening-more-often-and-result-more-devastating-new-research - 2025-11-19

On 15 May 2025, scientists, engineers, and environmental stakeholders will gather to celebrate a milestone for Swedish climate research: the 10-year anniversary of ICOS Sweden’s national greenhouse gas observation network; a decade of operation for ICOS Sweden’s station Hyltemossa and 30 years of data collection at the Norunda site. This year sees a decade of operation for ICOS Sweden’s station Hy

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/celebrating-decade-data-icos-sweden-marks-milestone-climate-science - 2025-11-19

As Europe moves toward climate neutrality by 2050, forests are at the center of the transition. The ForestPaths project brings together researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders across the continent to co-design forest-based policy pathways that balance climate goals, biodiversity, and economic needs. A recent study*, supported by ForestPaths. analyzed over 182,000 forest plots across 11 countri

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/charting-smarter-forest-futures-how-forestpaths-rethinking-forest-policy-europe - 2025-11-19

Read the MERGE 2014 self-evaluation here. Some of the headlines of the report are: Research output, Strategic value for the society and the business sector and Collaboration. The MERGE self-evaluation is one step of the total evaluation of the strategic research environments. Before summer the final MERGE self-evaluation was sent in, answering 20 questions about the performance during the first fo

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-self-evaluation-2014 - 2025-11-19

Earlier this spring, MERGE researchers gathered in Stockholm with their European colleagues to plan the final developments of the EC-Earth4 climate model that will underpin the next report of the IPCC, expected in 2028. The EC-Earth consortium, started in 2006, is a European consortium of national meteorological services and research institutes. From its original model it has been developed in thr

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researchers-met-develop-ec-earth4-climate-model-ahead-2028-ipcc-report - 2025-11-19

The first encyclopedia that presents a thorough overview of the fields of quality and services for students, researchers, and professionals in the social sciences and business is now ready after many years of work by Professor Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park from our department as General Editor. The " SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy" ISBN: 9781452256726 presents state-of-the-art researc

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/first-encyclopedia-service-economy-out-now - 2025-11-19

Professor C. Michael Hall from the University of Canterbury, New Zeeland has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. He has made significant contributions in research and education at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. “We are very pleased and happy that the Faculty of Social Sciences has given C. Michael Hall this kind of r

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/c-michael-hall-receives-honorary-doctorate - 2025-11-19

The project “Nordic-Baltic Tourism Research Studies/ NORBATOUR” connects the competences of four universities - in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark - to share the information and knowledge on tourism research methods, trends and studies. The importance of tourism industry in the regional economy is growing and the need for research and study activities is increasing. In order to evaluate the i

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/norbatour-nordic-baltic-tourism-research-studies - 2025-11-19

On Wednesday June 8, our master students, together with all graduate Master students at the Faculty of Social Sciences, had their Graduation Ceremony in the old University building in Lund. This year the audience had the pleasure of listening to some great speeches. The commencement speech by Professor Ian Manners from University of Copenhagen gave a reflecting speech on life and work, but most im

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/graduation-ceremony - 2025-11-19