Published 31 October 2018 Catarina Rolfsdotter and Henrik Smith It's been 20 years since the first students in Environmental Science started at Lund University. Great progress has been made in the environmental field since then, but there are still many challenges for future students to work with. Due to the anniversary, the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research invited to an afternoon wit

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/20-year-jubilee-environmental-science - 2025-04-29

Published 27 November 2018 Photo: Kennet Ruona Today, Lina Herbertsson from the CEC will take part in the final of Researchers Grand Prix, where researchers from Swedish universities challenge each other making the best oral presentation of their research. The final will take place in Stockholm beginning at 14:00, you can follow the final and vote at forskargrandprix.se/liveAbout Lina Herbertsson

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lina-herbertsson-final-researchers-grand-prix - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 29 November 2018 It is important to make science relevant for policy makers, CEC's Jasmine Livingston argues in her recent thesis. Jasmine Livingston from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has written a thesis discussing the connection between policy and climate science. She has studied what takes place both on

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-science-and-climate-politics - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 30 November 2018 The Center for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, received positive responses on research applications from both the European Research Council and Formas, why the organization can continue to develop and recruit both researchers and administrative staff during 2019. "It is CEC's combination of deep knowl

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-strengthens-organization-new-research-funding - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 4 December 2018 Measuring equipment at Norunda. Photo Anders Båth. The Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS, announces that Norunda and additional 14 greenhouse gas measurement stations have been certified for standardized data production. ICOS data helps to reveal the carbon emissions and sinks on a European level, esse

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/standardized-greenhouse-gas-measurement-helps-predict-and-mitigate-climate-change - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 5 December 2018 Abisko Scientific Research Station The region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth and its polar bears and melting glaciers have become key symbols of climate change. But the Arctic, it seems, is not as well researched as we think it is. Since the Arctic covers some 14.5 million square kilometers, and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/environmental-change-arctic - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 5 December 2018 Mark Brady. Photo: Hanna Holm. Soil security provides a framework for appreciating the importance of soils for planetary health and in turn human wellbeing. Mark Brady from the CEC has given a plenary talk called What role might economics play with soil science for achieving soil security? at the Soil Security

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/soil-security-and-economics - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 10 January 2019 Simon Herzog has studied what factors determine the fate of iron from boreal rivers and is now defending his thesis "Fate of riverine iron over estuarine salinity gradients". Rivers have traditionally not been considered important sources of bioavailable iron (Fe) to the marine waters, since most iron is lost b

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/iron-boreal-rivers - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 11 January 2019 Global environmental problems can be addressed by means of policy instruments such as carbon dioxide taxes, building and technology standards and support for new technology, but the issues are complex and several environmental challenges must be addressed simultaneously in order to achieve optimal effect. This

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/environmental-challenges-must-be-addressed-simultaneously - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 1 February 2019 Professor Natascha Kljun and Station Manager Anders Båth in the Norunda forest. Photo: Irene Lehner. 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 fores

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2025-04-29

Published 15 February 2019 CEC is in an expansive phase and the number of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and administrative staff increased during 2018. 2018 was the year for celebrating 20 successful years, with more than 1,000 graduates from the study programme in Environmental Science. In October, CEC arranged a jubilee for current and former students and employees. CEC also started an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-annual-report-2018 - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 20 March 2019 CEC has been granted funding for a so-called collaborative initiative to find solutions for sustainable land use in Sweden, with emphasis on Skåne. The collaborative initiative called LU Land is to be a platform where different sectors, interests and research topics jointly address the challenges that an increasi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/land-use-sustainable-future - 2025-04-29

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 25 March 2019 Johan Ekroos, Sara Sällström and Lina Herbertsson. The national Swedish radio visited Lund to talk about pollinating insects and study their wintering sites. Pollinating insects are threatened by food shortages, by toxins, by climate change and because environments where insects can seek protection are disappeari

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lack-settlements-threatens-biodiversity - 2025-04-29

Published 24 April 2019 The seminar on urban nature attracted a lot of people An exhibition, a seminar on urban nature and a climate crash course – that's how CEC contributed to the Sustainability week 2019. Markku Rummukainen and Maria von Post gave a crash course in climate change and biological diversity together with colleagues at Lund University. A summary is published (in Swedish) on Faceboo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-during-sustainability-week - 2025-04-29

By stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - published 8 May 2019 The CEC PhD students and some of the supervisors at the spring meeting. How do micro-plastics affect our soil? What's the impact of urbanization on biodiversity? And how can drones be used for measuring carbon fluxes from Swedish peatlands? These were a few of the questions raised at the initial PhD st

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-makers-focus-environmental-and-climate-effects - 2025-04-29

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 29 May 2019 Photo: Anna Maria Erling The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-04-29

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 2 July 2019 The researchers in Lund are investigating the interaction between a vegetation in change and the climate. For example, what will happen to tundra when it gets warmer? In the picture: volcano Korjakskaja Sopka in northeastern Russia. Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a new, up

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unique-climate-modeling-vegetation-focus - 2025-04-29

By stina [dot] johannesson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Johannesson) - published 26 June 2019 Summer days bring relaxing breaks in parks for many city dwellers. But how often do you look up from your picnic blanket and reflect on the surrounding wildlife and on how it would affect you if the birds went silent for good? Johan K. Jensen’s doctoral studies compares the wellbeing of some of our m

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-life-urban-birds - 2025-04-29

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 15 August 2019 When it comes to meeting sustainability goals, the current reform proposal of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) falls well short at the mark, accordning to a group of international researchers writing in the journal Science. The proposed amendments to the CAP will not improv

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-reject-eu-reform-plans-cap-not-viable-future - 2025-04-29

Published 13 January 2023 Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren CMES scholar Lina Eklund has received a career grant from the Swedish National Space Agency for a 4 year project on wildfires in the Middle East. Research on vegetation fires, their spatiotemporal patterns, and their links to biophysical as well as political and socio-economic factors in drylands is limited. No large scale, interdisciplinary a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-receives-swedish-national-space-agency-career-grant - 2025-04-29