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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earths-plants-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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)

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 y

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ambio-special-issue-greenland-ecosystem-monitoring-programme - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/niklas-boke-olens-dataset-projected-population-density-published-nature-scientific-data - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, Patr

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/historical-spatio-temporal-dataset-1813-1914-published-nature-scientific-data - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/torben-r-christensen-featured-short-film-about-arctic-climate-and-environment - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 on biodiversity a

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-report-easac - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We wish you all a warm and relaxing summer. However, in only a few weeks from now the important Almedalen week starts. Lund University is as always well represented and many panels have connections to the Middle East and the dynamics of this region. As well, keep your eyes and ears open for coming news on the planned

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-2-summer-edition - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES guest researcher Defne Kadıoğlu Polat just published a chapter in the book "German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics". "In recent years, dialogue between Germany and Turkey has increasingly become subject to political, academic and public

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/creatively-displaced-impact-neoliberal-urban-policies-immigrants-turkey-berlin - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Svante Lundgren is a researcher at CMES. Two of his popular science books have recently been published in translation. Assyrierna - från Nineve till Södertälje (2014) have been published in Dutch: De Assyriërs - van Nineveh naar Enschede (AJN Press). It has previously appeared in German (2015) and English (2016) trans

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/books-assyrians-svante-lundgren-translated - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Pinar Dinc, researcher from from CMES, tomorrow holds a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Being a mountainous region with numerous bodies of water, valleys, and grottos, Dersim or Tunceli was a shelter for non-dominant groups (non-Sunni and non-Turkish) for centuries. Both the Ottoman Empire and t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/art-government-reading-turkeys-raison-detat-through-novels-and-short-stories-dersim-1937-38 - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Next week CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour is speaking at an event that marks the launch of policy papers by the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) on an engendered constitution, the return of displaced Syrians and reconstruction. The papers relied on the findings of a series of national consultations

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-syrian-political-process-return-displaced-syrians-reconstruction-and-engendered - 2026-05-15

From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, what has changed? CMES Researcher Orwa Ajjoub has written an article examining the history of one of the most significant opposition groups in the Syrian conflict, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). In it, he traces the group through four main phases: during the first phase, which lasted between January 2012 and April 2013, the group emerged under the name

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-history-hts - 2026-05-15

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a post-doc that will be part of the research area regarding groundwater as a natural resource in the arid Middle East and how the use of satellite data and advanced machine-learning algorithms can be used to solve complex water supply problems. The groundwater is rapidly dwindling as a natural resource in the Middle East. At the same time popula

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern. Its immense strategic importance and strong role in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a new platform called ip-ACIRR* are working to promote rights for people with disabilities in contexts of armed conflicts and for inclusive post-conflict society building. When CMES researcher Helen Avery was in Sulaimaniya in Kurdistan, she

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cooperation-initiative-around-people-disabilities-conflict-areas - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-presentation-sol-sprak-och-litteraturcentrum-lund-university - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Monday the 27th of May, CMES affiliated researcher, the Syria scholar and ethnographic filmmaker Joshka Wessels will present her upcoming book which will be published by Bloomsbury/IB Tauris entitled "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". Joshka's book is the world's first history of Syrian D

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/worlds-first-history-syrian-documentary-cinema - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year's Graduate Student Conference was entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to present and discuss their own research and ideas. One of the presentations was The Hurdles of the Patriarchy – Women and Polit

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-and-politics-lebanon-one-many-interesting-presentations-graduate-student-conference - 2026-05-15