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What roles do the forest and other ecosystems play on the greenhouse gas balance? How is this measured? Researchers and engineers from our department, engaged in ICOS, are featured in Vetandets Värld in Swedish Radio. Listen to the audio clip to find out about this research. Throughout Euope, ICOS - Integrated Carbon Observation system -  is building a network, an infrastructure of measurement sta

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/greenhouse-gas-measurements-and-ecosystem-monitoring-changing-climate - 2025-12-13

Researcher Cecilia Akselsson recently received funding for research projects in the announcement "Perspektiv på de globala hållbarhetsmålen" (Swedish for "Perspective on Global Sustainability Goals"). She will do research on sustainable land use and develop approaches to landscapes to achieve global sustainability goals. Hi Cecilia! What kind of research will you be doing?The purpose is to develop

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/research-sustainability - 2025-12-13

Actic expeditions - very expensive as well as time consuming and sometimes dangerous. Researchers Hakim Abdi and Daniel Metcalfe about unevenly distributed research. The Arctic is a remote and hard to reach area, which affects where research expeditions go and where climate scientists set up their field experiments. "The result is an extremely uneven concentration of research effort", states Hakim

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/what-we-do-not-know-about-arctic - 2025-12-13

VIDEO: Researchers from our department are measuring terpene particles emitted by spruce/fir forests, which are believed to have a cooling effect on the climate. They believe that planting more of this type of forest could help offset global warming. – Planting spruce forests could increase the carbon uptake. They would release aerosol particles which have a cooling effect on the earth, Janne Rinn

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/could-spruce-forests-help-offset-climate-change - 2025-12-13

A pioneering permafrost study has just been released in the online journal Nature Communications, showing that in all permafrost regions, soil temperatures rose by an average of 0,3 degrees Celsius between 2007 and 2016. Margareta Johansson, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, is one of the co-authors of this study. The new study shows that

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/permafrost-soils-warming-global-scale - 2025-12-13

Climate change causes an amplified warming of the Arctic, which may lead to the release of methane from previously frozen soils. Since it’s a strong greenhouse gas, arctic methane release can act as a positive feedback on climate change. However, anthropogenic efforts to reduce methane emissions may be more important for the direction of future climate warming. Torben R. Christensen and Frans-Jan

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reductions-anthropogenic-methane-emissions-outweigh-most-likely-scenarios-arctic-methane-release - 2025-12-13

...Henrik Hagelin, physical geographer who was awarded ’Innovationspriset 2019’, in the category for students, by Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne bank, for his wildfire spread modelling tool. Why were you awarded the Innovationspriset 2019?I am developing a modelling system called WISE-FASS (Wildfire Spread Estimator and Fire Attack Support System). The system is being developed for the emerg

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hello-there - 2025-12-13

- The closing party with polonaise and night walks together with all promovendi who sang various songs for the statues in one of the Helsinki parks was a special experience. Our Professor emeritus Anders Lindroth, was conferred an honorary doctorate at the Univeristy of Helsinki last week. The following motivation is stated:"Honorary doctorates in science will be conferred on Professor Emeritus An

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/professor-anders-lindroth-honorary-doctor-univeristy-helsinki - 2025-12-13

A warming experiment in a subarctic birch forest resulted many times higher release of BVOCs. Not to be neglected in the climate discussions, says one of the researchers behind the study. Ecosystems and the climate change response, as well as the feedbacks of these, are complicated to fully understand and to map out. As the currently ongoing climate change amplifies the temperature, plants respond

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/warming-simulation-increased-plant-volatile-defence - 2025-12-13

On August 29th, Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department, was interviewed in SVT news program Aktuellt. The topic was how ongoing climate changes are affecting alpine regions in Sweden. Climate changes are occurring with twice the speed in northern Sweden, compared with the rest of the country. When compared to pre-industrial times, the world has been warmed with +0,8 degrees Celsius betw

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-interviewed-svt-aktuellt-how-climate-change-affecting-alpine-regions-sweden - 2025-12-13

Treasure hunt, clouds, food and much more. The department opened its doors during the cultural night in Lund on September 21, 2019. During "Kulturnatten", a yearly cultural event taking place in Lund, our department opened its doors, inviting the public to take part in a varity of activites. The aim was to show some of the themes that the department works with, including the carbon portal and ICOS

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-house-during-lund-kulturnatten - 2025-12-13

Several coworkers have been interviewed in different media outlets because of their expertise. Markku Rummukainen, professor at CEC and the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, was interviewed in several media channels about the latest report from the UN’s climate panel, IPCC. “The report provides a focused examination of climate change and its impact on oceans, sea ice, glacier

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/coworkers-featured-media - 2025-12-13

The local news media "Lokaltidningen" reported about a new library on Svalbard which is now hosting Jonas Åkerman's collection of books, satellite images and maps. The local newspaper reports on the opening of a library in a former radio station on Svalbard.Read the full article here (Google translated)"Jonas Åkerman has done research on permafrost and climate change for 46 years. [...] His observ

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-library-offers-jonas-akermans-literature - 2025-12-13

OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The purpose of the event is to highlight personal assistance and allow assistance users,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2025-12-13

Annika Björkdahl was invited to give a talk entitled ”Peace and the Politics of Memory” at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday the 17th April at the Arts Lecture Theatre. The talk was part of the School of International Relations, IR Monday Seminar Series.St. Andrews University's websiteAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the department's website.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gave-talk-scotland-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-12-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published a paper explaining election fraud historically in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719–1908, "Partisanship and Unreformed Bureaucracy: The Drivers of Election Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1908". These petitions reveal systematic procedural violations committed by local election officials towa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-eighteenth-century-election-fraud-sweden - 2025-12-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has published the article "Securitization and Foreign Policy Analysis", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Sjöstedt describes and reviews in this article the central assumptions of securitization theory in order to capture its applicability to the study of foreign policy. AbstractSince it was launched in the mid-1990s, the concept of securitizat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-12-13

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Per Andersson's thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" was held today, Friday 5th May, at 3:15 pm in Eden's lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should be given the chance to read it in advance and then ask questions at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anderssons-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-12-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén has written the article "The World Turned Away From Burundi, but Its Crisis Is Getting Worse” in World Politics Review. Learn more on worldpoliticsreview.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture and military intervention in Africa. Nina Wilén is currently a guest researcher at the department, and is usually e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/world-turns-away-burundi-crisis-worsens - 2025-12-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Government investigations rely on unsubstantiated evidence in reports on extensive cheating in welfare systems for people with disabilities. Both current and former governments have based their assistance policies on public commissions that lack scientific basis. This is shown in a new report by political scientists Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson.Niklas Altermark's p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-report-unreliable-evidence-behind-accusations-cheating-personal-assistance - 2025-12-13