22 Dec 2020

A new year – a new name, a new Director and a new organisation for CEC

CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject bound...

22 Dec 2020

The climate researchers' wish list for 2021

2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to...

16 Dec 2020

Forestry plays key role in Sweden’s climate change mitigation

The forest investigation recently submitted to the Swedish government gives suggestions on creating synergies between international and national commitments on biodiversity and a g...

8 Dec 2020

Past ocean conditions give clues to marine environmental changes

How can previous warm periods in the ocean help us better understand the ongoing climate change? PhD student Sha Ni defends her dissertation at CEC this week with fossil findings t...

2 Dec 2020

Researchers want to know how the public perceive Invasive Alien Plants

Researchers at the Pufendorf Institute are working together in a Theme about Invasive Alien Plants, and are interested in finding out how the public, as well as experts, regard dif...

25 Nov 2020

Global climate dialogues to boost climate work

The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two...

24 Nov 2020

CEC provides education on co-design and inclusive public environments

CEC is one of the actors behind a new international education programme with the purpose to strengthen innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030 Ag...

27 Aug 2020

Atlantic sturgeon in the King’s pantry – unique discovery in Baltic Sea wreck from 1495

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic st...

27 Aug 2020

High human population density negative for pollinators

Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund ...

27 Aug 2020

Revealed: How billions in EU farming subsidies are being misspent

A unique study has analyzed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regio...

5 Jun 2020

New collaboration strengthens climate and biodiversity research

The graduate research schools ClimBEco and the Bolin Centre Climate Research School (CRS) have recently initiated a collaboration with multiple climate-focused intentions. The join...

27 May 2020

Dramatic changes in regional flora

A study from Lund University indicates that the flora of Skåne in southern Sweden changed drastically throughout the 1900s and up to the present day. The greatest decline in specie...

6 May 2020

Thank you for participating in CEC’s online Science Says! conference and BECC-MERGE spring meeting!

We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants.

2 May 2020

An unusually early spring – how nature in Sweden is responding to an increasingly warm climate

In recent decades, the climate in Sweden has become about two degrees warmer on average and this year we have seen an unprecedentedly mild winter and early spring. How is nature re...

30 Apr 2020

Profitability, not more cattle, is needed to save natural grazing land

Sweden does not need more cattle to save natural grazing land with high biodiversity. This is the conclusion of a new report by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. What is ne...

28 Apr 2020

Green infrastructure – planning and designing a functioning nature

After climate change, biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental challenge facing the world today. The loss of plant and animal species also means a loss of the resources that ...

22 Apr 2020

Particles baffle climate researchers

If you exhale on a clear day in the clean, cold air of the Arctic, you will not see your breath form the cloud we are used to seeing when the temperature drops. The reason for this...

28 Feb 2020

Edith is a Future Research Leader

Edith Hammer at CEC and the Department of Biology has been named as a Future Research Leader of the Foundation for Strategic Research. She is one of twenty researchers who receive ...

14 Feb 2020

Beyond the climate anxiety, there is sadness and hope

How do you feel when you spend a large proportion of your waking hours noting facts about a planet in crisis? What is it like when every day you take a long, hard look at issues co...

13 Dec 2019

Better pollination produces firmer apples that better withstand storage

Good pollination of apple flowers can extend the time apples can be stored without rotting. Apple harvests are also bigger, producing firmer and tastier apples according to a new s...