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Hallå där, Nils-Eric Sahlin, du fick ett brev från Europakommissionens ordförande Ursula von der Leyen! Berätta? – Brevet handlade om att EU-kommissionen nyligen beslutat att jag ska ingå i den etiska grupp som är rådgivande till presidenten och kommissionären för forskning inom EU. Under pandemin har gruppen med det krångliga namnet European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies inte tr
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/i-eu-kommissionens-tjanst - 2025-11-29
Maten vi äter påverkar inte bara kroppen utan även knoppen. Forskare vid Lunds universitet strävar efter att förstå hur en kost med mycket fett och socker påverkar minnesförmågor i samband med övervikt och typ 2-diabetes. Deras nya studie på möss visar att fet mat och sockersötad dryck leder till försämringar av minnet, men att det går att vända utvecklingen. Övervikt är en riskfaktor för att utve
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/en-kost-rik-pa-fett-och-socker-forsamrade-minnet-hos-moss-men-inte-gott - 2025-11-29
Graviditet kan medföra ökad risk för att bli sjuk i tuberkulos (tbc). Särskilt för kvinnor som bär på tbc-bakterier och därmed har latent, eller vilande, tbc. Dagens diagnostiska tekniker har svårt att upptäcka latent tbc, särskilt när en individs immunförsvar är förändrat som exempelvis vid graviditet. Dessutom är det okänt hur immunförsvarets egen kontroll av latent tbc påverkas under en gravidi
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-avhandling-kastar-ljus-pa-gravidas-immunforsvar-vid-latent-tuberkulos - 2025-11-29
Dr Dan Metcalfe is co-author to a Nature paper now out, based upon his work with the Global Ecosystem Monitoring Network. From observations across a network of forest plots in the Amazon basin, the study finds that tree keep growing but cut back on respiratory metabolism during severe drought.This remarkable result suggests that trees maintain their short-term competitive edge through stressful pe
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/drought-impact-forest-carbon-dynamics-and-fluxes-amazonia - 2025-11-29
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 of digital infrastructure, business-driven applications and integration of proce
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/smart-built-environment-new-strategic-innovation-area-sweden - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
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 climbs to rank #60, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 university" motto.
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-20-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2025-11-29
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 Portal?– The ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data store of ICOS. ICOS is the Gree
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/carbon-portal-access-carbon-research-data - 2025-11-29
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 of the carbon dioxide emissions from human activities. So far, rainforests have
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/semi-arid-ecosystems-play-key-role-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
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 give the plants their characteristic smell, but it also have other effects, such as
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/trees-communicate-and-affect-climate - 2025-11-29
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 more information, use the following links:https://scihub.esa.int/news/News00029http
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/esa-satellite-provides-remote-sensing-data - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
"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 surface. This increases the temperatures in the area, resulting in activity in th
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/accelerated-methane-emissions-when-arctic-sea-ice-melts - 2025-11-29
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 - 2025-11-29
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 said.Articles, in Swedish, in Svenska Dagbladet, SVT Nyheter, Sydsvenskan, Göteborg
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/climate-change-creates-more-flood-damage - 2025-11-29
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 on the Arctic climate”, he said. International media also reported on the news, fo
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/melting-sea-ice-arctic-accelerates-methane-emissions - 2025-11-29
