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25 May 2021

Bumblebee detection dog on research duty

Doctoral student Sofia Blomqvist is training her dog Ylle to find bumblebees and other pollinating insects.

10 May 2021

Project funding for researchers to apply for a doctoral studentship in Environmental Science within the Agenda 2030 graduate school

The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) now announces funding for one doctoral studentship, where the doctoral student is admitted to the PhD programme in Environmen...

14 Apr 2021

Location of conservation measures has a large impact on their effectiveness in providing environmental benefits

By changing from action-based to result-based environmental payment, farmers are financially encouraged to implement conservation measures, such as buffer strips and organic farmin...

13 Apr 2021

New method predicts the severity of the grass pollen season for allergy sufferers

An international research team has found a new method for predicting entire pollen seasons, something that can help healthcare and allergy sufferers plan to reduce problems. No sim...

31 Mar 2021

Climate benefits of the forest – a balancing act in prioritisation

The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide.

24 Mar 2021

Drones offer new insights into boreal peatland CO2 emissions

Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon but warmer and drier conditions caused by climate change may turn these ecosystems into carbon sources.

23 Mar 2021

A warmer climate is making the world’s most common bumblebee even more common

Many species of bee are threatened by global warming, but not all. The buff-tailed bumblebee is the world’s most common bee and will likely remain that way, as researchers from Lun...

24 Feb 2021

Find the first bumblebee of the spring

Researchers at Lund University now ask for the public's help in reporting the first bumblebee queens of the spring.

3 Feb 2021

A warmer climate may make new mutations more harmful

A warmer global climate can cause mutations to have more severe consequences for the health of organisms.

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...