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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. VINNOVA, Energimyndigheten and Formas have selected Smart Built Environment as one out of five new Swedish strategic innovation projects. The government and industry will initially invest up to 200 million SEK in the program over three years.The investments will cover research, development and innovation in the fields

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/smart-built-environment-new-strategic-innovation-area-sweden - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the latest issue of LUM, Jonas Ardö, Senior Lecturer at our department, discusses how to make resources suffice in the Sahel region. Read the article here.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Emma Li Johansson, PhD student, collaborates with Scientific American graphic science team for visualizing large scale land acquistions for their May 2015 issue. Read article in Scientific AmericanEmma Li Johansson staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emma-li-johansson-contributed-graphic-scientific-american - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. QS Top University ranking for 2015 places Lund University as the world's twentieth by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 20 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is an improvement from last year's position of 21. Lund University as a whole also

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-20-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data portal for a European-wide Greenhouse Gas monitoring network. It offers access to research data from ICOS scientists all over Europe, and provides facilities and IT resources supporting modelling activities for elaborated data products. Hello Alex Vermeulen! What is the Carbon Po

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/carbon-portal-access-carbon-research-data - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Findings from an international research group including Anders Ahlström (main author) and Ben Smith from INES, reveals news that changes the view on neglected areas: the semi-arid ecosystems has a key role in carbon cycling. The group has published their findings in Science. Terrestrial bioshere is absorbing about 1/4

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/semi-arid-ecosystems-play-key-role-global-carbon-cycling - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Embassy in Washington asked four experts on the Arctic. First to be asked is Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department. Watch her answer or watch all four expert answers.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/why-do-we-need-care-about-arctic-region - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Daniel Metcalfe, associate senior lecturer at our department, has received a grant from the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for nature and environment in Lapland. The money is to enable him to investigate how grazing insects affect soil processes in the birch forests of Lapland. Visit Dan Metcalfe's staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/money-research-lapland - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ylva Persson, PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University, is conducting research on cloned trees. Her aim is to understand how the substances secreted by trees affects, and is affected, by climate. Ylva Persson studies the trees' volatile organic compounds (BVOCs).  It does not only gi

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/trees-communicate-and-affect-climate - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The new ESA (European Space Agency) satellite SENTINEL-2 is now in orbit, producing preliminary test data. The satellites' sensor is unique in terms of having both high spatial resolution, as well as temporal resolution. Data from SENTINEl-2 is used by the Lund Earth Observation research group in their research.For mo

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/esa-satellite-provides-remote-sensing-data - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology, has written an article in Miljömagasinet on climate change. It is still possible to influence the ongoing development, he writes. Read article here (Google translated)Staff page of Markku Rummukainen

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-climate-change - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The latest issue of LUM features Emma Li Johansson's research. The article in LUM mentions the exhibition that will take place at the department on September 17th.Read the article in LUMSee event in our calendarVisit the staff page of Emma Li Johansson

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/article-lum-physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "Changes in the Arctic Ocean can affect ecosystems located far away on land, " says Dr. Frans-Jan Parmentier at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, lead author of the newly pyublished international study. As the sea ice melts the reflection of sunlight is replaced by absorption by the open sea

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/accelerated-methane-emissions-when-arctic-sea-ice-melts - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The candidate will carry out development, testing and application of the Earth system model EC-EARTH in preparation for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and the next Assessment Report of the IPCC. Apply no later than October 13th. You'll find the full job announcement here.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/job-opening-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-system-modelling - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor of climatology Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in many media outlets due to the fact that the number of flood damages in 2014 was five times higher than in 2013. “The climate is getting warmer and there will be more and heavier downpours, which increases the risk of flooding and subsequent damages”, he sa

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/climate-change-creates-more-flood-damage - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Frans-Jan Parmentier, researcher at our department, was interviewed in NyTeknik about his new research that shows that methane emissions from the Arctic tundra increase when the Arctic ice melts. “The decreased amounts of Arctic sea ice is one of the most visible consequences of climate change, and has a huge impact o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/melting-sea-ice-arctic-accelerates-methane-emissions - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Monday October 12th, all campus activity was cancelled due to a threat to the university, which the police judged needed to be taken seriously. After it turned out the threat had been distributed to several other higher educational institutions as well, a decision has been taken to reopen the university. Activities

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/campus-teaching-cancelled-october-12th-due-threat - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department, has been interviewed by Sveriges Radio - Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster - about her research on permafrost. Margareta Johansson said she is measuring the active layer, that is, the part of the permafrost that thaws every year, as well as looking a

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-interviewed-sveriges-radio - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Markku Rummukainen has been featured twice in Dagens Nyheter recently, and once in Forskning & Framsteg. In one article in Dagens Nyheter, Rummukainen was interviewed about capturing and storing of carbon dioxide as a strategy for mitigating climate change. The technology is called CCS, which stands for carbon, captur

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/marku-rummukainen-featured-media-topic-climate-change - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Dan Metcalfe is co-author to a paper coming out in Nature on the 23rd November, based upon his work with the longest-running tropical drought experiment. The study uses measurements from an Amazon forest subjected to over 12 years of severe artificial drought to pinpoint the mechanisms of drought induced tree morta

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/article-tropical-drought-experiment-nature - 2026-05-09