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18 Jun 2024
Weather attribution – climate scientist Wilhelm May helps us get to grips with the concept
Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pa...
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23 May 2024
Voices from the Swedish Climate Symposium
After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, b...
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21 May 2024
Five ways to create a toxin-free garden
Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we talk about the climate and endangered species. Ahe...
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2 May 2024
Computational science hub to sharpen research in environment and health
A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary researc...
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2 May 2024
Improving food safety risk assessment in the EU
Ullrika Sahlin, a CEC researcher specialising in Computational Science for Health and Environment (COSHE) research, recently completed a mission for the European Food Safety Author...
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15 Mar 2024
Our events at the Sustainability Week in Lund 2024
Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and the Lund Municipality invite you to participate in sustainability activities. It is a week full of discussions and ...
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1 Feb 2024
Effects of landscape change on the evolution of pollinators
An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. This is the conclusion of an article published by BECC and CEC-affiliated researchers...
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30 Jan 2024
Forest analysis through satellite data and machine learning
With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the ...
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29 Jan 2024
Three questions to David Wårlind about Swedish Climate Symposium
On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to se...
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19 Jan 2024
Funding for doctoral student projects in Environmental Science
CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to five (5) doctoral student projects, where the...
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10 Jan 2024
Katarina Hedlund new director at CEC
Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund Univ...
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18 Dec 2023
Global climate deal with renewables and net-zero energy systems
A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the tran...
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11 Dec 2023
Professor Henrik Smith receives the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology
A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund.
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6 Dec 2023
Nanoplastics influence microbial activity in the soil
Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara...
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5 Dec 2023
Congratulations to ICOS!
Congratulations on the funding for the research infrastructure ICOS, Natascha Kljun, Scientific Principle Investigator of the Lund University ICOS stations! ICOS Sweden has been aw...
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4 Dec 2023
Commonly used pesticides are still harming pollinators
A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries show that despite tighte...
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4 Dec 2023
One step closer towards improving cancer surgery and reprogramming cells
What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if machine learning allowed surgeons to precis...
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23 Nov 2023
Five questions for Markku Rummukainen ahead of the COP28 climate summit
The UN's annual climate summit, COP28, is just around the corner. Starting on 30 November, the world's countries will meet for two weeks to discuss global climate cooperation and h...
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23 Nov 2023
Time to submit your contribution to the Swedish Climate Symposium
On 15-17 May 2024, SMHI, the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research invite you to the second Swedish Climate Symposium in Norrköping. A ...
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7 Sep 2023
The city - our most important ecosystem?
The city is the perfect place to study nature and how humans affect it, says Johan Kjellberg Jensen. In a new dissertation from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CE...