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...

3 Dec 2019

Farmers’ incentives for choosing most appropriate environmental measures must increase

Many farmers are positive to measures beneficial for biodiversity and the environment. But bureaucracy and regulatory hassle often stand in the way, says Lovisa Nilsson in a new di...

14 Nov 2019

Thank you!

Today, 15 November, we celebrate Philanthropy Day. In connection with this, Lund University would like to extend its warm gratitude to you for having shown an active interest and f...

11 Nov 2019

Another type of forest management would provide greater values for society

A forest management method different to those practised today would contribute to greater welfare and wellbeing for society in general, compared with current methods that mainly be...

6 Nov 2019

Broader view of blue carbon gives climate summit input

Protecting, planting and restoring coastal ecosystems has attracted increased attention as a way of capturing and storing carbon in mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows. I...

18 Oct 2019

Biodiversity leads to increased crop production

A diversity of different pollinators and other beneficial organisms in an agricultural landscape leads to an increase in crop production. This has been shown by a comprehensive int...