Published 19 August 2016 Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during July and August. In July, Markku was featured in Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad and  Aftonbladet, discussing climate change, and how global warming can be mitigated.He was also interviewed about the environmental impact of air travel in Sv

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2025-05-07

Published 27 September 2016 Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three people.Ylva will present her research on BVOC: the comm

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2025-05-07

Published 24 October 2016 Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordinated by Margareta Johansson and began October 1.For more

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2025-05-07

Published 26 October 2016 Photo: Janne Rinne The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2025-05-07

Published 14 November 2016 Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earths-plants-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide - 2025-05-07

Published 17 November 2016 Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Sah

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa - 2025-05-07

Published 1 February 2017 Kobbefjord, Greenland. Photo: Katrine Raundrup The Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme has produced a special issue of the journal AMBIO: Synthesis of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme. The special issue presents 13 papers based on Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (GEM) data. They describe chosen results and analyses of the past 10 and 20 years tha

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ambio-special-issue-greenland-ecosystem-monitoring-programme - 2025-05-07

Published 14 February 2017 A population projection dataset of Africa was generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. The publication of this dataset also led to the accreditation of DataGURU as a Nature data repository. A population projection dataset of African population spanning over the rest of this century has been generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. It is the first of its k

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/niklas-boke-olens-dataset-projected-population-density-published-nature-scientific-data - 2025-05-07

Published 11 April 2017 A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detai

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/historical-spatio-temporal-dataset-1813-1914-published-nature-scientific-data - 2025-05-07

Published 4 May 2017 Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" org

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/torben-r-christensen-featured-short-film-about-arctic-climate-and-environment - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 22 May 2017 EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-report-easac - 2025-05-07

Published 28 March 2024 The Inverse Modelling group at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, seeks to appoint a post-doctoral fellows to work on the quantification of biogenic and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions based on assimilating relevant observational data. The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/pdf_ccmodelling - 2025-05-07

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 30 July 2024 Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East. The Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announce one vacant position as a 2-year postdoctoral fellow with an orientation towards

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-position-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observation - 2025-05-07

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 7 August 2024 Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash. Researcher Patrik Vestin writes in a " news and views " article in Nature that the woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance. This is a missing piece in the estimation of global methane budgets, and hence in climate models. Future resear

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/bigger-role-trees-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-05-07

Published 16 October 2024 Photo by E. Diop, Unsplash. Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact on the global carbon cycle, is relatively unexplored with respect to ecosystem functions and impact on climate change. Now one of few in situ studies over a long period of time, 2010-2022, shows that the Sahel area has lost a lot of its power as a carbon sink during the time period examined.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reduced-carbon-sink-power-sahel - 2025-05-07

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 10 April 2025 The study shows that rewilding-inspired forest management has several benefits, including for biodiversity. Photo by Scott Walsh on Unsplash Allowing nature to cover up after human activities, known as rewilding, has several benefits. It improves the resilience of ecosystems, increases biodiversity and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/rewilding-good-planet-and-people - 2025-05-07

Published 4 September 2024 Read the new CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars.Read the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-46 - 2025-05-07

Published 5 September 2024 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored a paper published in Sustainability. The article, "Modeling Ecosystem Regulation Services and Performing Cost–Benefit Analysis for Climate Change Mitigation through Nature-Based Solutions Using InVEST Models", was co-authored by Sana Bouguerra (National Institute of Research in Rural Engineering Water and Forestry), B

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mitigating-climate-change-tunisia-through-nature-based-solutions - 2025-05-07

By altea [dot] pericoli [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Altea Pericoli) - published 6 September 2024 The Gaza Strip in 2022. Photo: Mohammed Al Bardawil/Unsplash This Regional Outlook focuses on the obstacles of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza and the challenges of rebuilding and reconstructing the area after the war. In 2007, the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt in Gaza transformed the Strip

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-humanitarian-exceptionalism-and-quest-post-war-reconstruction-gaza-strip - 2025-05-07

Published 10 September 2024 CMES researchers Mo Hamza and Sinem Kavak have co-authored an article published in Frontiers in Human Dynamics. The article, "Refugee agency in secondary mobility decision-making: a systematic literature review", was written by Sinem Kavak (CMES & LUCSUS), Mo Hamza (CMES & Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety), Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (University of Copenhag

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/refugee-agency-mobility-decision-making - 2025-05-07