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10 May 2022

The importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth

Where, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – ...

29 Mar 2022

ClimBEco winter meeting 2022 – summary

In February, ClimBEco PhD students gathered for our annual winter meeting. For the second consecutive year – but hopefully for the last time – the meeting was held digitally due to...

7 Feb 2022

Welcome to the Swedish Climate Symposium

2 Nov 2021

Iceparticles in clouds can affect the climate

Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate. By affecting the atmosphere’s ability to form ...

14 Oct 2021

Exploring the Future Climates of the Polar Regions

The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions...

8 Oct 2021

MERGE researchers celebrate the Nobel prize 2021 reciever in Physics

Earlier this week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University, USA, and Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Insti...

24 Sep 2021

Summary of ClimBEco summer meeting 2021 - Food and.....everything else

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; th...

25 Aug 2021

What comes next: after the IPCC climate change report

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk ab...

10 Jul 2021

New report: Measures that support both the climate and biodiversity

Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

2 Jun 2021

Drones offer new insights into boreal peatland CO2 emissions

Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon, but warmer and drier conditions caused by climate change may turn these ecosystems into carbon sources. Equipped with drones and the...