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Where, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – and contributes with new knowledge in a complex and fraught area. Across the world, researchers are in agreement on future warming patterns. However, future precipitation is more difficult to predict, and climate models

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earth - 2025-11-20

Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but a higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden. The researchers followed more than 350 000 people over several decades, and the results are now published in European Urology. It is well known that smokers have an increased risk of developing various cancers, but there have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-worsens-prognosis-men-prostate-cancer - 2025-11-20

Huntington’s disease is hereditary, genetic and usually begins between the ages of 30 and 50. In Sweden, around 1,000 people have the diagnosis and several thousand live with the risk of getting the disease. Even more people have a connection to the disease as its symptoms also affect those close to the patient to a high degree. The disease leads to premature death and there are no treatments that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/huntingtons-complex-brain-disease-affects-movement-thoughts-and-feelings - 2025-11-20

The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 particles increases with shorter physical distance to a patient, higher patient viral load and poor ventilation. Measurements taken by researchers at Lund University in Sweden of airborne virus in hospitals provide new knowledge about how best to adapt healthcare to reduce the risk of spread of infection. Researchers hope current international guidelines in he

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-airborne-virus-particles-could-help-hospitals - 2025-11-20

On April 29, Lund University presented the strengths with which it aims to contribute to the world’s largest investment in cultural and creative sectors. The ‘Buzz of Europe’ conference showcased opportunities that the broad University can offer. Held in a packed university auditorium, the event was aimed at anyone interested in joining the Creatives & Friends network, which has now been establish

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-creative-and-cultural-expertise-can-serve-force-solve-significant-social-challenges - 2025-11-20

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has investigated a meteorite from Mars using neutron and X-ray tomography. The technology, which will probably be used when NASA examines samples from the Red Planet in 2030, showed that the meteorite had limited exposure to water, thus making life at that specific time and place unlikely. In a cloud of smoke, NASA's spacecraft Perseverance parachut

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-indicates-limited-water-circulation-late-history-mars - 2025-11-20

At the end of March, the first cases of acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children were reported in the UK. Since then, the number has increased to more than 300 in around 20 countries; there are now reports of nine suspected cases in Sweden. The acute liver infection mainly affects otherwise completely healthy children under the age of 16, which puzzles researchers who are now searching

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-search-answers-increase-acute-severe-hepatitis-children - 2025-11-20

After many years, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has sequenced and characterized the entire genome of oats. This opens up for breeding healthier oats with even better nutritional content, and growing oats in a more environmentally sustainable way. The detailed genetic analyzes also strengthen the evidence that oats are safe in a gluten-free diet. The results are published in Natu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/entire-oat-genome-mapped - 2025-11-20

A 30-year-old genetic mystery has been solved. It has previously been established that touch can trigger stress reactions in plants. However, the molecular models for explaining this process have been quite spartan so far. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found genetic keys that explain how plants respond so strongly to mechanical stimuli. Cracking this code could help lead to hig

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-happens-when-plants-have-stress-reactions-touch - 2025-11-20

A new study by researchers at Lund University supports the notion that patients with type 2 diabetes patient should be divided into subgroups and given individualised treatment. The study demonstrates that there are distinct epigenetic differences between different groups of patients with type 2 diabetes. The epigenetic markers are also associated with different risks of developing common complica

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/epigenetic-markers-predict-complications-patients-type-2-diabetes - 2025-11-20

The ostrich is genetically wired to adapt to rising or falling temperatures. However, when the temperature fluctuates more often, as it does with climate change, the flightless bird with a 40-gram brain finds it much more difficult. A research team at Lund University has shown that the ostrich is very sensitive to fluctuating temperatures in terms of whether it reproduces. If the temperature rises

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ostriches-can-adapt-heat-or-cold-not-both - 2025-11-20

The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal. However, a new study that pieces together evidence stretching back 9,000 years, suggests that the current changes aren’t unique, and that a reversal may not be in the cards after all. The study is pub

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/earths-magnetic-poles-not-likely-flip-study - 2025-11-20

The year is 2072, and the worst storm in two hundred years is about to hit Scania, in the south of Sweden. In Skanör-Falsterbo, a family is celebrating Christmas when the storm alarm sounds. The waves draw closer to the house, and the family dash towards the nearby church. What happens next is the result of many decades of decisions: did we work together, or did the lines of conflict become even d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/soundwalk-imagines-climate-future - 2025-11-20

Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found a group of stars in the Milky Way disk, that are most likely remnants from an unknown baby galaxy that was swallowed by the Milky Way over 10 billion years ago. Nothing like it has been discovered in the galaxy disk before. After the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, space was a veritable Wild West. Stars formed inside huge gas clouds that collide

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-find-ten-billion-year-old-ghost-stars-swallowed-galaxy - 2025-11-20

On-trend clothes that you only wear a few times – in the beginning of the 2000s the fashion industry started speeding up production. Today, it accounts for around 10 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions and criticism is being directed at the industry for not taking responsibility for its social and environmental impact. The big question is; can fashion become sustainable? Technological deve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fast-fashion-has-huge-impact-environment - 2025-11-20

För femton år sedan började de första doktoranderna sin forskarutbildning vid CEC. Sedan dess har det blivit 240 doktorander från CEC och forskarskolan ClimBEco, som CEC är värd för. I veckan samlades ett 60-tal av dem för ett gemensamt alumnfirande med nätverkande, workshoppar och föreläsningar i AF-borgen i Lund. Alumnerna från CEC och ClimBEco återfinns inom vitt skilda fält i dag, vissa har fo

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/alumner-fran-cec-och-climbeco-samlas-firande-och-natverkande - 2025-11-19

Vi befinner oss i en omvälvande tid med klimatförändringar, pandemi och krig i vår närhet. Hur upplever och bedömer vi som individer de nya risker och osäkerheter vi ställs inför? På seminariet ”Risk på svenska” den 20 juni berättade forskare om hur risk påverkar vårt beslutsfattande och hur man kan hantera risker som privatperson, företag och samhället i stort. Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) är

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/risk-och-osakerhet-i-dagens-varld-hur-paverkar-de-vara-beslut - 2025-11-19

Marint centrum i Simrishamn har fått ett nytt fältlaboratorium. Lunds universitet stärker därmed sin marinbiologiska profil och här ska forskare från bland annat Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap bedriva projekt om Östersjön. Marint centrum etablerades av Simrishamns kommun 2010 som en mötesplats med fokus på hav, vatten och kustbygd. År 2019 inleddes ett forskningssamarbete med Lunds univers

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/starkare-marin-profil-med-nytt-faltlabb-i-simrishamn - 2025-11-19

Årets svenska sommar började varmt och torrt. Hur anpassade är landets förskolor och äldreboenden till kommande värmeböljor i ett förändrat klimat? Det är några av de ämnen som tas upp i årets examensarbeten av studenter vid Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap, CEC. Och den övergripande slutsatsen är att mer behöver göras. När risken för värmeböljor ökar i takt med klimatförändringarna innebär

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/mer-klimatanpassning-barn-och-aldre-behovs-nar-varmeboljorna-blir-fler - 2025-11-19

Staden är den perfekta platsen för att studera natur och hur människan påverkar den, menar Johan Kjellberg Jensen. I en ny avhandling från Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC) fördjupar han sig i just samspelet mellan växter, djur och människor i den fysiska miljö som städer utgör.  Många av oss förknippar ”natur” med något man åker i väg till landsbygden för att uppleva. Men natur finns a

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/staden-vart-viktigaste-ekosystem - 2025-11-19