Global environmental problems can be addressed by means of policy instruments such as carbon dioxide taxes, building and technology standards and support for new technology, but the issues are complex and several environmental challenges must be addressed simultaneously in order to achieve optimal effect. This is evident from the article Policy design for the Anthropocene published in the journal

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/environmental-challenges-must-be-addressed-simultaneously - 2025-09-11

Professor Natascha Kljun and Station Manager Anders Båth in the Norunda forest. Photo: Irene Lehner. Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed. Young growing forests store a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2025-09-11

CEC is in an expansive phase and the number of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and administrative staff increased during 2018. 2018 was the year for celebrating 20 successful years, with more than 1,000 graduates from the study programme in Environmental Science. In October, CEC arranged a jubilee for current and former students and employees. CEC also started an Alumni Network, for anyone

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-annual-report-2018 - 2025-09-11

CEC has been granted funding for a so-called collaborative initiative to find solutions for sustainable land use in Sweden, with emphasis on Skåne. The collaborative initiative called LU Land is to be a platform where different sectors, interests and research topics jointly address the challenges that an increasing need for products from the agricultural sector, ecosystem services and land for inf

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/land-use-sustainable-future - 2025-09-11

Johan Ekroos, Sara Sällström and Lina Herbertsson. The national Swedish radio visited Lund to talk about pollinating insects and study their wintering sites. Pollinating insects are threatened by food shortages, by toxins, by climate change and because environments where insects can seek protection are disappearing. Sara Sällström from the Swedish radio met CEC's Lina Herbertsson and Johan Ekroos

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lack-settlements-threatens-biodiversity - 2025-09-11

The seminar on urban nature attracted a lot of people An exhibition, a seminar on urban nature and a climate crash course – that's how CEC contributed to the Sustainability week 2019. Markku Rummukainen and Maria von Post gave a crash course in climate change and biological diversity together with colleagues at Lund University. A summary is published (in Swedish) on Facebook and Lund University's

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-during-sustainability-week - 2025-09-11

The CEC PhD students and some of the supervisors at the spring meeting. How do micro-plastics affect our soil? What's the impact of urbanization on biodiversity? And how can drones be used for measuring carbon fluxes from Swedish peatlands? These were a few of the questions raised at the initial PhD student spring meeting at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC). The first ever i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-makers-focus-environmental-and-climate-effects - 2025-09-11

Photo: Anna Maria Erling The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and Caroline Isaksson. In many countries, factors such as large-scale agriculture and forestry, pesti

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-09-11

The researchers in Lund are investigating the interaction between a vegetation in change and the climate. For example, what will happen to tundra when it gets warmer? In the picture: volcano Korjakskaja Sopka in northeastern Russia. Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a new, updated version of a global climate model that will increase understanding of global warming. Throug

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unique-climate-modeling-vegetation-focus - 2025-09-11

Summer days bring relaxing breaks in parks for many city dwellers. But how often do you look up from your picnic blanket and reflect on the surrounding wildlife and on how it would affect you if the birds went silent for good? Johan K. Jensen’s doctoral studies compares the wellbeing of some of our most common small birds living in the city compared to the countryside. “Blue Tits are quite jumpy.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-life-urban-birds - 2025-09-11

When it comes to meeting sustainability goals, the current reform proposal of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) falls well short at the mark, accordning to a group of international researchers writing in the journal Science. The proposed amendments to the CAP will not improve the environmental protection – rather the opposite, says Dagmar Clough, ecologist at Lund Universit

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-reject-eu-reform-plans-cap-not-viable-future - 2025-09-11

Photomicrograph of a shocked quartz grain from the Hummeln impact structure. In a study, published in the journal Geology, C. Alwmark and co-authors provides definite evidence for a meteorite impact origin of the Hummeln structure (located in the Småland province, Sweden), closing an about 200 years old debate. Further reading..

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/meteorite-impact-created-hummeln-structure - 2025-09-11

Helena Alexanderson has been admitted to the Pedagogic Academy at the Faculty of Science. With this follows the title "Excellent Teaching Practioner".

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/helena-alexanderson-awarded-title-excellent-teaching-practioner - 2025-09-11

Department of Geology organizes a full day symposium on the theme “Climate development and ocean dynamics during the last glacial - interglacial cycle” as a tribute to Professor Svante Björck and his research in Quaternary Science for more than 40 years because of his retirement from the Chair in Quaternary Geology on February 2015 02 28Program

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/symposium-climate-development-and-ocean-dynamics-during-last-glacial-interglacial-cycle-june-12-0900 - 2025-09-11

 More info on our vacanies page.

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/several-vacant-positions-senior-university-lecturers-and-postdoctoral-fellow - 2025-09-11

Sun over the NEEM research station in Northern Greenland. Photo by: Raimund Muscheler Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems.According to a study published to

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2025-09-11

2016 är Vandringens år i Skåne. Klasser kan gå på en guidad vandring, bland annat här i Botaniska trädgården. I samband med Vandringens år 2016 har du chansen att ta med din klass på en guidad vandring i Skåne. Det pedagogiska upplägget tar din undervisning ut i naturen och låter dina elever upptäcka det skånska natur- och kulturlandskapet.Du kan anmäla klasser i åk F-6 och även grupper från friti

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/vandra-och-lar-i-botaniska-tradgarden - 2025-09-11

Nu är årets utplantering av sommarblommor klar. På området mellan växthusen och fd Botaniska muséet kan du botananisera bland ett drygt hundratal ettåriga sommarblommor. Kom och se vilken som blir din favorit.

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/sommarblommorna-ar-pa-plats - 2025-09-11

Dahliorna blommar just nu sydväst om växthuset i Botaniska trädgården. I Botaniska trädgården finns det ett femtiotal sorter av dahlior. De blommar just nu sydväst om växthuset i mitten av Botaniska trädgården.

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/nu-blommar-dahliorna-i-tradgarden - 2025-09-11

Välkommen till Höstfest i Botan! Samtidigt som Kulturnatten blir det bland annat växtmarknad och provsmakning. Se hela programmet här! Här kan du se hela programmet för Höstfesten 17-18 september.Se även evenemanget på Facebook.

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/se-programmet-hostfesten-pa-kulturnatten - 2025-09-11