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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dan Metcalfe has been awarded a Formas Urgent grant for a project on the impact El Niño has on tropical forests. Dan Metcalfe, who recently was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, has been awarded 919 000 SEK for a Formas Urgent grant entitled "The impact of the 2015 El-Niño event on tropical forests: immediate effects
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-grant-dan-metcalfe - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On his 50th birthday April 7th, the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet features Torben Christensen and his research. Read the article here (Google translated).
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/he-conducts-research-chilly-areas - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. QS World University Rankings for 2016 places Lund University as the world's 16th by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 16 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is the an improvement from last year's position of 20.Lund University as a whole is r
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-16-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different wa
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Margareta Johansson, researcher at the department, has been elected as the new Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change. Here she answers some questions regarding this. What's the purpose of the the Academy's National Committee for Global Environmental Change?–
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ricardo Guillén, IT technician at the department, has been awarded The Science Student Union honorary prize. The honorary prize is awarded to an employee or a group of employees at the Faculty of Science that has made the studies easier for students or works to strengthen the student voice.The prize is partly motivate
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ricardo-guillen-awarded-luna-honorary-prize - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 interv
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 pe
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 coordina
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 o
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2026-05-03
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 - 2026-05-03
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 - 2026-05-03
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 - 2026-05-03
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
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 - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It is during a difficult time that Akiça Bahri has taken over the responsibility as Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in Tunisia. But with a doctorate in water management from Lund University and many international missions on her CV, she was ready for the assignment. Since 2011 and the start of t
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lu-doctor-water-focus-and-cmes-connections-new-minister-tunisia - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director Seasonal greetings from the team at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies This has been a strange and challenging year. We have just closed down the Centre temporarily due to escalating Covid-19 pandemic. However, in 2021 we hope to be movin
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-16-december-2020 - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The majority of the new dust sources are due to environmental degradation caused by human activities. To prevent further dust source generation, the first step is to identify the new dust sources and predict the dust source occurrences in the vulnerable areas. We developed a novel approach that combines machine learni
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-about-dust-source-detection-and-dust-source-susceptibility-mapping - 2026-05-03
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This study identifies obstacles and barriers in distance learning and the use of electronic exams, comparing them to pursue success in the distance education system during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). It also aimed to determine the similarity and differences between the two main components of distance educatio
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The demand for water supply is continuously rising due to population growth and development across the world. In arid and semi-arid areas, particularly the Middle East, aquifers form the central freshwater reserves, hence are being uncontrollably exploited to meet water demand for an ever-increasing population and ind
