By lotte [dot] billing [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Lotte Billing) - published 12 August 2021 Climate researchers Markku Rummukainen and Kimberly Nicholas are interviewed about the latest UN climate panel report. Photo by NOAA on Unsplash. Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC repre

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-08-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 21 September 2021 Large scale drought hit Sweden in 2018. The picture shows a field in Gotland. Photo: Sten-Åke Stenberg/Mostphotos. Farming practices that result in higher levels of carbon in agricultural soils could protect both wheat and barley harvests in a future changed climate. This is what emerges from a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/more-carbon-soil-could-protect-harvests-future-climate - 2025-08-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 22 October 2021 Image: IStock On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last year's canceled conference, and the IPCC report released in August. As part of the Paris Agreement in 201

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-08-01

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 27 October 2021 John Falk presents his dissertation on how combustion affects cloud droplet and ice particle formation in the atmosphere. Photo: Eberhard Grossgasteiger, Unsplash Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ice-particles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2025-08-01

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 11 November 2021 Embroidery and photo by Maria Blasi Lack of habitats and climate change – parameters that scientists know affect the number of pollinators in the world. But exactly how big is the effect and what else contributes to the decline of bees and bumblebees? This has Maria Blasi i Romero tried to find

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/modelling-survival-bumblebees - 2025-08-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 17 November 2021 Plane trees in Slottsparken in Malmö. Photo: Anna Maria Erling. The type of tree you plant – whether you choose native or non-native species – is of great significance for insect life in a city, more so than researchers previously thought. This is what emerges from a new study by researchers at L

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/choice-trees-carries-great-significance-city-insect-life - 2025-08-01

By izabella [dot] rosengren [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Izabella Rosengren) - published 14 February 2022 In her dissertation, Ivette Raicec Cruz emphasizes the importance of communicating scientific uncertainty. Photo: Istockphoto/BrianAJackson Scientific advice to decision makers requires transparent scientific assessments, in which communication of uncertainty is important in order to avoid over

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/important-express-scientific-uncertainty - 2025-08-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 13 December 2021 In a new report from Lund University, researchers observed that honey bees compete with wild bees for flower resources. Photo: Sandra Lindström. Increasing attention is being paid to the impact of honey bees on wild bees. In a new report from Lund University in Sweden, researchers observed that h

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/wild-bees-and-honey-bees-compete-food - 2025-08-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 14 February 2022 Insects detected included many important species such as bees, moths, flies, beetles, wasps and ants. Photo: Photorama/Pixabay. Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA fr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2025-08-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 28 February 2022 The researchers emphasise that the need for climate adaptation. Here a village in Demak Regency, Indonesia, surrounded by water due to rising sea levels. Photo: Aji Styawan / Getty Images Climate Visuals Grant recipient. On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publish

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-panel-world-must-act-now - 2025-08-01

By stina [dot] lundkvist [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Lundkvist) - published 18 March 2022 In the Safeguard project, researchers are working together to reverse the loss of wild pollinators in Europe. Photo: Stina Lundkvist CEC is one of 24 European research institutes and organizations that is participating in the EU-funded Safeguard project, where world-leading researchers and experts are c

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participates-international-research-project-protect-wild-pollinators - 2025-08-01

Published 13 January 2023 Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren CMES scholar Lina Eklund has received a career grant from the Swedish National Space Agency for a 4 year project on wildfires in the Middle East. Research on vegetation fires, their spatiotemporal patterns, and their links to biophysical as well as political and socio-economic factors in drylands is limited. No large scale, interdisciplinary a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-receives-swedish-national-space-agency-career-grant - 2025-08-01

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 18 January 2023 The Olof Palme visiting professorship in 2023 is held by Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull. The professorship is funded by the Swedish Research Council and hosted by CMES and the Department of Political Science, Lund University. During his research visit at Lund University, Raphae

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-welcomes-olof-palme-visiting-professor-raphael-cohen-almagor - 2025-08-01

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 27 January 2023 CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has been interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about the relationship between Turkey and Sweden in relation to Sweden's NATO application and recent protests in both countries. The article "Expert: Så bör Sverige agera efter hotet om bojkott" (In English "Expert: How Sweden

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/pinar-dinc-interviewed-about-sweden-turkey-relations - 2025-08-01

Published 27 January 2023 On 22 February, CMES researcher Pinar Dinc gives a lecture on democracy in Turkey at AF-Borgen (18:00-20:00) co-organized by CMES and UPF. Welcome! This lecture will focus on the upcoming general elections in Turkey by taking a look at the 22 years of the AKP government. It will do so by elaborating on the long process from “democratic opening” to “democratic breakdown” i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/eleventh-hour-elections-past-and-future-democracy-turkey - 2025-08-01

Published 27 January 2023 Shrine in Iraq. Photo: mhrezaa on Unsplash In this seminar, which is co-organised by the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, we will look at some cases of fluid boundaries and intertwined identities, when religious belonging and ethnic identification freely mix, and evolve, and change. We will hear about two groups

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seminar-religious-belonging-and-ethnic-identification-middle-east - 2025-08-01

Published 27 January 2023 Photo: Scott Graham on Unsplash The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of research-based policy briefs, including formatting and writing conventions, identifying and disseminating to an audience, and evaluating their impact. The workshop is a joint collaboration with the LU Agenda 2030 Graduate School and the Pufendorf Institute Advanced Study Group "Wildfires

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-writing-policy-briefs - 2025-08-01

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 31 January 2023 Pinar Dinc. Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has been interviewed by ETC about Turkish bombings of Kurdish targets in northern Syria. The article "Turkiets bombattacker hotar kampen mot IS" (English: "Turkey's Bomb Attacks Threaten the Fight Against IS"), written by Al

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/pinar-dinc-interviewed-about-turkish-bombings-syria - 2025-08-01

Published 10 February 2023 CMES Olof Palme Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor has co-authored the chapter "Gender Discrimination in Israel" together with Uki Maroshek-Klarman (Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace) in a new edited volume published by Routledge. The chapter, which addresses gender discrimination in Israel, is published in the book Discrimination and Employment Law: International Lega

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gender-discrimination-israel-0 - 2025-08-01

Published 17 February 2023 CMES supports writing retreats on Middle East research with the aim to finalise an article, book chapter, edited volume or a book for publication in peer-reviewed outlets. Two writing retreats will be granted during the autumn of 2023. CMES offers office space and modern research facilities in a stimulating work environment on historic premises. Administrative, practical

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-open-call-cmes-writing-retreats - 2025-08-01