In a new report IPBES consider what values that can be put on nature, and what methods exist to calculate such a values. Photo: Istock. Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the key questions addressed in a new report by IPBES, the UN’s biodiversity panel, to be published on 1

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2025-09-13

A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on the profile area ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Photo: Kenneth Ruona. A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on five profile areas for Lund University. One of the areas is ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Thirty researchers from over a dozen departments at Lund University were behind the profile area applic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-says-yes-climbiosis-profile-area - 2025-09-13

Photo: Hans Ott/Unsplash. New data by the research infrastructure ICOS confirms that natural carbon sinks such as the ocean and forests are not stable. Climate change makes these sinks more vulnerable, in some cases even turning them into carbon emitters. This compromises current climate targets and action plans, reserachers say. Fluxes, the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, is a new publication b

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-makes-carbon-sinks-more-vulnerable - 2025-09-13

Urban forests have less bird diversity compared to forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas are of the same quality. Photo: Tariq Sulemani/Istockphoto. A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas ar

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-09-13

Adrian Gustafson doing fieldwork in the Arctic. Photo: Private. Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the resu

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-09-13

The clear-cutting shown from above. Please observe that the clar-cut is shown at a higher speed in the video than in reality. Video: ICOS Norunda. The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and it is unique. Following several decades of being surrounded by a hundred-year-old forest, it wi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2025-09-13

Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Kennet Ruona The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-09-13

Coastal engineer Caroline Hallin teaches doctoral students from the interdisciplinary ClimBEco Graduate Research School at Knäbäckshusen in Skåne, Sweden. Photo: Sara Håkansson The coast is changing. The sea is encroaching further inland, and the shoreline of childhood memory no longer looks the same. Climate change is impacting beaches and the sea, but time is also a factor. Someone who knows a l

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-research-school-skanes-beaches - 2025-09-13

Just over two weeks after the climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. The issue is less well-known than the climate crisis and no framework corresponding to the Paris agreement is in place – something that many people hope the December summit in Montreal will rectify. It i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/it-time-put-biodiversity-agenda-five-lund-researchers-challenges-cop15 - 2025-09-13

Newly hatched baby birds - the study investigated how they were affected by various effects of the urban environment. Photo: Caroline Isaksson, Lund University. Life in the city is tough – if you are a baby bird you are markedly affected by a certain type of air pollution and by which trees are close to the nest, new research from Lund, Sweden shows. Underlying the study is a new more detailed way

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nestling-birds-city-clearly-affected-air-pollution-and-which-trees-surround-them - 2025-09-13

António Guterres, Secretary-General of United Nations, at COP15 in Montréal, Canada. Photo: Maria Blasi The COP15 summit is over, and the world has received a sister deal to the "Paris Agreement", a global framework to protect biodiversity on the planet.  – It is a great moment for biodiversity. We needed this set of goals and hope. But there is lots of work to be done and only a few years left, s

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cop15-key-outcomes-biological-diversity - 2025-09-13

Adding "mini-meadows", is one way of helping pollinators. Photo: Therese EK Have you made adjustments to your garden to make it more welcoming for pollinators? If so, you have probably made a valuable contribution, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers evaluated the national ‘Operation: Save the Bees’ campaign, and their results indicate that what private individuals do in

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-you-do-your-garden-help-pollinators-works - 2025-09-13

The forest's environmental goals are not being met today. Klas Lucander has investigated what effects increased nitrogen fertilization could have on the forest. Photo: Shutterstock Forests are important for climate change mitigation, both as raw material for biofuels and for carbon storage. At the same time, forests are under pressure from a changing climate and more intensive forestry. A new thes

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/risk-eutrophication-and-acidification-if-forest-fertilization-introduced-southern-sweden - 2025-09-13

Att barn till typ 2 diabetiker har en ökad risk att själva insjukna är väl känt. Nu visar ett internationellt forskarlag att de långt innan de insjuknar har såväl försämrad förmåga att utsöndra insulin som nedsatt känslighet för insulinet. Typ 2 diabetes orsakas av insulinbirst som kan bero på två olika faktorer. Dels en otillräcklig förmåga hos de insulinproducerande betacellerna att utsöndra til

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/barnen-arver-daliga-insulinceller - 2025-09-13

Åtta av tio unga har kvar egen insulinproduktion ett år efter diagnosen typ 1 diabetes. En av tio till och med efter mer än fem år med sjukdomen. Detta är viktigt, blodsockret är lättare att kontrollera och risken för komplikationer senare i livet är lägre. Fyndet att så många så länge har kvar överlevande insulinproducerande betaceller går emot den gamla uppfattningen att den autoimmuna process s

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/vanligt-med-overlevande-betaceller-hos-unga - 2025-09-13

Vid nyupptäckt typ 2 diabetes bör behandlingen med blodsockersänkande läkemedel starta tidigare än den ofta gör idag. För dem som haft sjukdomen ett antal år är strikt sockerkontroll inte lika självklar. Det är två av de slutsatser SBU gör i en ny rapport. Den nya rapporten, tillsammans med tre andra från SBU (Statens beredning för medicinsk utvärdering) fungerar som vetenskapligt underlag för Soc

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/bra-med-tidig-tuff-behandling-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-09-13

Jämförelsen av syskon som föddes före respektive efter mammans fetmkirurgi visar stora skillnader i riskprofil för barnens framtida hälsa, till exempel för typ 2 diabetes och hjärt- kärlsjukdomar. - När fostret inte har exponerats för den skadliga miljö livmodern hos en fet kvinna är ser vi en dramatisk och långvarig skillnad för fetma och störningar av ämnesomsättningen, säger Picard Marceau från

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/mammas-fetmaoperation-raddar-barnens-framtida-halsa - 2025-09-13

I en ny gemensam rapport från de amerikanska och europeiska diabetesorganisationerna American Diabetes Association (ADA) och European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) beskrivs den största satsningen någonsin på precisionsmedicin inom diabetes. Rapporten innehåller en detaljerad översikt av precisionsmedicin och en färdplan för hur precisionsmedicin ska implementeras i diabetesvården. -

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/satsning-pa-precisionsmedicin-och-diabetes - 2025-09-13

Man skulle kunna beskriva henne som kartritare. Eller som upptäcktsresande. En som söker sätta landmärken i en mycket vidsträckt och till stora delar okänd terräng. En som söker identifiera genetiska riskmarkörer bland 30 000 gener och tre miljarder DNA-bokstäver. - Genetiken gör mycket stora framsteg. Tekniken för att göra riktigt breda genetiska kartläggningar blir allt mer avancerad och idag gö

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/kartritare-i-nastan-okant-land - 2025-09-13

Föräldrar till små barn med typ 1 diabetes har testat att ge en sockerspray till barnen när de får insulinkänningar. Tekniken har sedan jämförts mot att ge glukostabletter, frukt, juice eller andra sötsaker. Blodsockerfall hos små barn med typ 1 diabetes kan vara svåra att hantera för föräldrarna. Dels är det svårt att avgöra hur mycket sött som ska ges, dels kan barnen motsätta sig försöken att h

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/sockerpuffar-motar-blodsockerfallen - 2025-09-13