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For hundreds of years, people have made a living from livestock herding in rural Kenya. Today, their traditional way of life is increasingly burdened by the effects of climate change and population growth. In his doctoral thesis, Billy Jones examines why development aid projects in the region often fail – and how sustainable progress could instead be achieved with the help of local actors. Thirtee

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/research-shows-sustainable-development-requires-locally-rooted-aid - 2025-12-03

Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in the sector, and what happens when even poorer countries begin to compete by paying even lower wages for the seamstresses in the factories? Linn Ternsjö has studied the clothing manufacturing industry in Mauritius from a sustainability perspec

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/model-inclusive-growth-or-warning-lessons-garment-industry-mauritius - 2025-12-03

How can life-saving HIV treatments remain reliable when global aid is uncertain? What happens when animals are reduced to “carbon emissions” in sustainability debates? And how can urban forests be made safe at night without flooding them with artificial light, disturbing local wildlife? These are just some of the questions raised in Through the Kaleidoscope of Sustainability, an innovative new ant

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-anthology-explores-sustainability-through-25-unique-perspectives - 2025-12-03

Lund University was recently named number one in the world in the QS Sustainability Rankings. The Agenda 2030 Graduate School is now opening nominations for the annual Agenda 2030 Award. All university staff and students have the opportunity to highlight early-career researchers whose innovative work contributes to a more sustainable future. Sustainability has long been a clear priority for Lund U

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/ranked-best-world-sustainability-nominations-now-open-agenda-2030-award - 2025-12-03

Lead Biologics takes a major step towards a new cancer treatment. A new study shows that the company’s drug candidate effectively inhibits a previously unknown immune escape mechanism and eliminates acute myeloid leukemia cells in advanced experimental models. – This confirms the great interest in our novel approach to treating cancer, and is an important step towards first-in-human studies, says

https://www.createhealth.lth.se/article/promising-results-lead-biologics-first-class-checkpoint-inhibitor-published-nature-cancer - 2025-12-03

The Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation is donating SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University. This is the largest donation to the university since its foundation in 1666. The donation is dedicated to translational cancer research, meaning applied cancer research in antibody and cell therapies with the aim of improving prognosis and quality of life for today's cancer patients.Read the full ar

https://www.createhealth.lth.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university - 2025-12-03

The Swedish Cancer Society awards Kristian Pietras the Cancer Researcher of the Year 2025. Kristian Pietras, Professor of molecular medicine, is being recognised for his research on the tumour micro-environment, which has given us the key to understanding how cells in blood vessels and connective tissue interact with tumour cells.Read the full article:Kristian Pietras named Cancer Researcher of th

https://www.createhealth.lth.se/article/kristian-pietras-named-cancer-researcher-year-2025 - 2025-12-03

Thomas Pugh, principal investigator at BECC and researcher at MERGE, is one of the researchers behind a new study that is published in Science. In the study, the researchers compared results from three major modeling approaches that provide information on different aspects of risk on the impact of climate change on forests in the 21st century. Forests harbor enormous biodiversity and are a major c

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2025-12-03

Wild bees that ingest the neonicotinoid clothianidin when they feed from nectar of rapeseed flowers grown from clothianidin-coated seeds, become lethargic. In addition, strawberries pollinated by these bees become smaller. These are the results of a study conducted by three BECC researchers at Lund University. Wild and managed bees are important providers of pollination services and benefit the pr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/smaller-strawberries-after-pollination-red-mason-bees-have-ingested-neonicotinoid-clothianidin - 2025-12-03

Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now, BECC researcher Louise C Andresen among others, are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional carbon sink in the long term. As forests age, their uptake of CO2 declines and, each time forests are planted, there is a risk of additional carbon bei

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/planting-trees-not-always-effective-way-binding-carbon-dioxide - 2025-12-03

China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer and the Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts. This is the topic of a new episode of the Swedish podcast Kinapodden with BECC-researcher Deliang Chen as one of the guests. China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer. The Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts, resulting in an acute energy shortage. In a new epis

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2025-12-03

A new study led by Lund University with researchers at BECC shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-12-03

Climate change threatens slow-growing tree species that are important carbon storages according to a new thesis by BECC researcher Maria Witteman. The rainforest's ability to store carbon may decrease in step with climate change according to a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg written by BECC researcher Maria Witteman. The photosynthesis of leaves becomes less effective at higher temper

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/rainforest-grows-warmer-trees-become-overheated - 2025-12-03

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-12-03

How can we protect society from the extremities of a changing climate while also protecting nature and enhancing biodiversity? BECC-researchers Johanna Alkan-Johansson and Helena Hanson are guests in this episode of the podcast by nordics.info. Listen to a dialogue about how nature-based solutions are used in the Nordics, their benefits and their downsides. How can we protect society from the extr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-nature-based-solutions-nordicsinfo-podcast - 2025-12-03

Jonas Ardö and Johannes Rousk are Principal Investigators at BECC. They have both received funding from the recent Formas call that focus on climate and agriculture. In the call “Carbon storage as a climate measure in agriculture” from Formas, six projects received funding to increase knowledge about carbon storage in Swedish agricultural and to support Swedish food production.  Two of the project

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/two-becc-pis-receive-funding-formas-research-climate-and-agriculture - 2025-12-03

After this summer meeting, one cannot understate the importance of and unmistakeable delight in meeting in-person after a long, pandemic-sized hiatus. On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the crisp early autumn of Skåne, a group of 28 ClimBEco PhD students spent two nights and two days getting to know one another and learning about the topic of sustainable coastal environments. Hosted by the Simris

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2022 - 2025-12-03

Just before the start of COP27, IPCC released a popular science version of its latest report on climate change. Deliang Chen, professor at MERGE and BECC, is one of the authors and comments the summary, which is also available for download. To make science on climate change and its effects more available to all, IPCC has released a popular science version of its latest report written in a plain la

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/ipcc-summary-all - 2025-12-03

Swedish, previously uncut forests have been converted to plantations at a steady rate since 2003. In a new study, BECC-researcher Anders Ahlström and his research team find that old forests have been cut and lost by ∼1.4% per year since 2003, and at this rate they will disappear by the 2070s. Natural ecosystems that have experienced limited direct human impact are threatened by land use change. On

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/old-unprotected-forests-might-disappear-2070s-sweden - 2025-12-03

Just over two weeks after the climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. Two researchers with a membership in BECC will attend the meeting. In this article they comment the upcoming meeting together with three of their BECC-affiliated colleagues. The article is published on C

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/it-time-put-biodiversity-agenda-five-lund-researchers-challenges-cop15 - 2025-12-03