By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 13 October 2020 3D illustration of different pollen. Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers E

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/old-pollen-seed-can-predict-tomorrows-climate - 2025-04-27

Published 18 February 2021 The theme of the ClimBEco annual meeting was “Multidisciplinary learning environments – seizing their opportunities and avoiding their pitfalls”. After an icebreaker that included seeing some sweet ‘corona-pets’ in the screens, we brought ourselves onto the level of metaphysics and the multiple ways of knowing about the world. We considered the epistemological breadth in

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-winter-meeting-2021 - 2025-04-27

Published 24 April 2014 See climate scenarios interactively displayed as maps and diagrams. SMHI's web service provides easy to use information to the general public as well as to decision makers.  The new web service presents and describes results of climate research conducted at the Rossby Centre, SMHI, with the aim to provide easy to use informaton to the general public as well as to decision m

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/smhi-launches-new-web-service-climate-scenarios - 2025-04-27

Published 15 June 2014 From September to December there will be a course about the WG1 report from IPCC: Climate Change - The Physical Science Basis. A coming course at the University of Gothenburg will review the IPCC WGI report, “Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis”.Course leaders: erik [dot] thomson [at] chem [dot] gu [dot] se (Erik Thomson) and ravikant [at] chem [dot] gu [dot] se

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-course-about-review-ipcc-wg1-report - 2025-04-27

Published 5 May 2021 Deadline June 11 Joint MERGE and BECC funding instrument for Short Projects MERGE Short Projects MERGE workshops MERGE welcomes proposals for 1. short research projects for the years 2021-22 with the MERGE Research Strategy 2020-2025 as a point of departure. 2. MERGE workshops during 2021 3. MERGE-BECC joint short projects for the years 2021-2022 You find the full description

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/3-merge-calls-open - 2025-04-27

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 2 June 2021 Julia Kelly at fieldwork. Photo: Private Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon, but warmer and drier conditions caused by climate change may turn these ecosystems into carbon sources. Equipped with drones and thermal cameras Julia Kelly, who recently received her doctorate at the Centre for

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/drones-offer-new-insights-boreal-peatland-co2-emissions - 2025-04-27

By lotte [dot] billing [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Lotte Billing) - published 25 August 2021 Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPC

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-04-27

Published 10 July 2021 Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are launching the first global report that integrates the two issues. This is a welcome and much needed move, according to three

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-measures-support-both-climate-and-biodiversity - 2025-04-27

By cheryl [dot] sjostrom [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Cheryl Sjöström and Helena Gonzales Lindberg) - published 24 September 2021 At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on ju

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2025-04-27

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 2 November 2021 John Falk presents his thesis on how combustion affect clouddroplets and icenucleation 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. By affecting th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/iceparticles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2025-04-27

By lina [dot] nikoleris [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Nikoleris) - published 8 October 2021 Pristagarna Syokuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann och Giorgio Parisi. Illustration: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach. Earlier this week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University, USA, and Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Institute fo

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researchers-celebrate-nobel-prize-2021-reciever-physics - 2025-04-27

Published 14 October 2021 The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions still have significant uncertainties. This is hampering efforts to curb climate change and deal with the effects we already see at play not only within the Polar regions, but also in Europe and

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/exploring-future-climates-polar-regions - 2025-04-27

Published 7 February 2022 Dear all, We are proud to welcome you to the first national scientific climate conference in Sweden - a unique opportunity for climate scientists to interact, reflect, and identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for the future. The Swedish Climate Symposium will highlight the main conclusions of the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC and its consequences for Sweden

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/welcome-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-04-27

By cheryl [dot] sjostrom [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Cheryl Sjöström) - published 29 March 2022 Photo by Ars Buchatski on Unsplash. In February, ClimBEco PhD students gathered for our annual winter meeting. For the second consecutive year – but hopefully for the last time – the meeting was held digitally due to pandemic restrictions, with a small lunch gathering at the conclusion. During this two-

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climbeco-winter-meeting-2022-summary - 2025-04-27

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 10 May 2022 How much drier can the Amazon forest become before the forest cover is impacted? Photo: iStockPhoto Where, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – and contributes with new knowledge i

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earth - 2025-04-27

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 13 September 2022 Thomas Pugh, principal investigator at BECC and researcher at MERGE, is one of the researchers behind a new study that is published in Science. In the study, the researchers compared results from three major modeling approaches that provide information on different aspects of risk on the impact of climate cha

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2025-04-27

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 28 September 2022 China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer and the Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts. This is the topic of a new episode of the Swedish podcast Kinapodden with MERGE-researcher Deliang Chen as one of the guests. China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer. The Yangtze River

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2025-04-27

Published 4 October 2022 Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the are

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-04-27

Published 3 November 2022 After this summer meeting, one cannot understate the importance of and unmistakeable delight in meeting in-person after a long, pandemic-sized hiatus. On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the crisp early autumn of Skåne, a group of 28 ClimBEco PhD students spent two nights and two days getting to know one another and learning about the topic of sustainable coastal environm

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2022 - 2025-04-27

Published 8 November 2022 Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Lund University The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics suc

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-04-27