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In a new article for The Conversation, CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi reveals how climate change is reshaping Saharan dust storms and their growing impact on Europe. Read the full article: (External link. The Conversation)Saharan dust storms are a natural phenomenon, often experienced in southern Europe, but climate change is altering their intensity, frequency, and paths, with growing consequenc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-change-altering-saharan-dust-and-europe-downwind - 2026-05-17

CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has authored "Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan", available online (open access) in The Commentaries. Environmental degradation is identified as a key factor that threatens the future of life on Earth, but such generalised reading entails that conceal the uneven effects of environmental degradation. When environmental degradation takes place on the lands of t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/environmental-racism-and-resistance-kurdistan - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This policy brief is based on two behavioural economic field studies and informs policy makers how to make the roll-out of smart electricity meters more effective. Are electricity consumers irrational fools? They keep their devices in stand-by mode, forget to switch off the lights when they leave the room, purchase ha

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-policy-brief-smart-electricity-meters-and-their-users - 2026-05-17

Lund University has proudly secured third place globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings, competing against 1,750 institutions worldwide. This remarkable achievement reflects the university's unwavering commitment to sustainability, driven by strategic investments in the IIIEE and other interdisciplinary initiatives, such as Sustainability Forum, LUCSUS, CEC, and the Agenda 2030 initiatives.Thes

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-3rd-best-qs-world-university-rankings-sustainability - 2026-05-17

A part of the vision of MERGE is interaction with stakeholders and making our work relevant to actions of mitigation. This is the topic of this autumn meeting where guests and MERGE participants share their experiences with outreach and stakeholder contact. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting on November 21-22 in Helsingborg - last day to sign up is October 30. 21-22 November 2016Venue: Elite Mari

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-merge-autumn-meeting-21-22-november - 2026-05-17

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/conference-about-affective-polarization-hosted-department-and-nordic-map-network - 2026-05-17

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-welcomes-new-interns - 2026-05-17

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/economic-development-and-democracy - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-politician-tony-blairs-role-middle-east-envoy - 2026-05-17

In an ongoing deadly violence (ODV) situation, it is important to act in a rapid and effective way. The Faculty is now offering two courses in English this autumn on how to handle ODV. Registration is open to all faculty staff. Participants will learn to recognise ODV situations and understand how to respond, as well as gaining knowledge about sheltering, evacuation, lockdown and barricading. Part

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/course-about-ongoing-deadly-violence-odv - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jan Teorell has together with Håvard Hegre and Michael Bernhard co-authored the article “Civil Society and the Democratic Peace”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of “Journal of Conflict Resolution”. In this article, the authors theorize that three distinct structures of democratic constraint may exp

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-democratic-peace - 2026-05-17

Malte Breiding Hansen has authored the article “Between Warring Parties: Culture Wars Over LGBT+ Equality” for the Culture Wars in Europe and Eurasia series/research project at the Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University. The article applies the concept of heterogeneity to show that the culture wars framework i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-lgbt-culture-wars-illiberalism-studies-program-george-washington-university - 2026-05-17

Previous research shows that wars contributed to the expansion of state revenues in the Early Modern period and in the twentieth century. There are, however, few cross-national studies on the long nineteenth century. Using new annual data on wars and public revenues from 1816 to 1913 for 27 American and European countries, this article provides new evidence that military conflicts very rarely trig

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/goenaga-sabate-and-teorell-publish-article-review-international-organizations - 2026-05-17

Despite 15 years of international commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, global subsidies reached a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a recent article for npj Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake and their co-authors call for a new approach that includes time-bound roadmaps, closing loopholes, and offering support to lower-income countries. The authors argue that current

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-approach-needed-address-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2026-05-17

The University’s Annual Academic Ceremony on 23 January 2026 saw Denmark’s former head of state, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, made an Honorary Fellow of Lund University. Honorary fellows at the University are extremely rare (former Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson is the only previous recipient of the title) and for a Danish Queen to be made an Honorary Fellow this time around seemed a hi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/annual-academic-ceremony-royally-celebrated - 2026-05-18

Several high-profile science researchers with major grants will be retiring in the next few years. In order to secure growth, the faculty, led by vice dean Anders Tunlid, is now introducing a new type of associate senior lectureship with benefits that will attract early-career researchers from all over the world. After an intensive morning of meetings, Anders Tunlid, sporting a new haircut, welcom

https://www.science.lu.se/article/creating-scope-cutting-edge-research-international-impact - 2026-05-17

In a recent research paper, Talina Sondershaus and her co-authors investigate how shadow banks, which are bank-like institutions that are only lightly regulated, behave in the context of climate change. They find that when society pays high attention to climate change, shadow banks start buying “brown loans”, i.e. loans from borrowers that have a large carbon footprint, while prices for these loan

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/shadow-banks-and-climate-change-ally-or-obstacle - 2026-05-17

Tove Fall became a familiar face during the Covid-19 pandemic when she was often seen in Swedish media talking about the spread and progression of the disease in Sweden. She is also an outstanding diabetes researcher who uses large quantities of data to gain a better understanding of the development of diabetes. Tove Fall is now awarded the Leif C. Groop award for outstanding diabetes research for

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-researcher-tove-fall-recipient-leif-c-groop-award-2023 - 2026-05-17

During the pandemic, the free COVID Symptom Study app has helped researchers understand the complexity and spread of the corona virus better. “The study has exceeded our expectations since its launch in Sweden in April 2020. Participants from all over Sweden got involved and many of them have spent one minute every day answering questions about their health”, says Maria Gomez, Professor of physiol

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-tracks-spread-covid-19-sweden - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Natural solutions to combat climate change are perceived as beneficial to both nature and people simultaneously. But claims that natural solutions also bring about empowerment, gender equality and inclusion are problematic, especially when issues of power, agency and marginalisation are ignored. This is according to n

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/natural-solutions-combat-climate-change-may-ignore-power-marginalisation-and-local-agency - 2026-05-17