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The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in temperature usually stimulates photosynthesis and growth for plants at our

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2025-10-01

The SRA evaluation, new publications in Science and Global Change Biology, researchers in media, and much more. Find the latest MERGE newsletter here - and sign up for the MERGE e-mail list and get all MERGE related news. Among the headlines are:Continuing the journey - Markku Rummukainen sums up the evaluation of the SRA'sIncreased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants ability to absorb nu

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-newsletter - 2025-10-01

On November 16-17 the 1st Nordic Chapter Risk Conference will be held in Lund. The topic is The Future of Risk Analysis in the Nordic Countries. The conference is open to all researchers, practitioners and policy makers that are working with or are interested in risk research and education. The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis in Europe and Lund University Centre of Risk Assessment

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/1st-nordic-risk-conference-lund-16-17-nov - 2025-10-01

Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems. According to a study published today in Nature Communications, solar storms could be much more powerful than previousl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2025-10-01

Deliang Chen, MERGE researcher at the University of Gothenburg, along with colleagues from four other European universities have published a book that shows the development of European extreme weather for the period 1801-2000. It has involved a huge amount of work to collect and analyse all the meteorological data for the book, entitled European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/europes-extreme-weather-over-200-years-presented-new-book - 2025-10-01

Africa is very vulnerable to climate change. However, challenges remain in understanding the full set of climate impacts for the region. Improved climate models may help contribute to solutions for reducing vulnerability. A step in the right direction, according to the researchers Minchao Wu and Markku Rummukainen, is to incorporate into todays climate models how regional ecosystems are affected b

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/improving-climate-models-reduce-vulnerability - 2025-10-01

Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The impact varies across the continent and also within individual countries. An improved set of data increases the possibilities for evaluating future risks, and how to best address

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/africas-vulnerable-ecosystem - 2025-10-01

Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in MERGE, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. He was one of 44 new Fellows elected on the Academy's 26th General Meetin

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-new-fellow-twas-world-academy-sciences - 2025-10-01

Right now Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, is in Paris for the COP21. His role is with the Swedish climate negotiation delegation and the EU’s negotiation organisation as a science expert. Read an interview with Markku about his thoughts on what is needed to reach the 2 degree goal. While limiting the global mean warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius would lead to avoiding increasingly l

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/early-action-and-cooperation-reach-2-degree-goal - 2025-10-01

New data presented by researchers at Lund University and others in the journal Oceanologia show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but also biomass combustion, industries and natural particles from the sea. “This is the first time an

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2025-10-01

On 11-12 November, the MERGE community was invited to Hotel Skansen in Båstad, Sweden to discuss the future of MERGE. Find the presentations from the meeting here. 11 November12.00 – 13.00 Lunch and registration13.00 – 13.05 Introduction13.05 – 13.35 Overview of the Horizon 2020 CRESCENDO project and CMIP6Paul Miller, Lund University13.35 – 14.05 - Palaeoclimate studies with EC-Earth in collaborat

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/presentations-merge-autumn-meeting-2015 - 2025-10-01

FORMAS will give five information meetings during February and talk about their open call. For more information about a specific meeting and regional activities, see contact information under each meeting below. The call will be published on Formas webb page on March 3: www.formas.se/ February 11, 13.00 -15.00, SLU Alnarp Location: Crafoordsalen, Alnarp, see building nb. 6 on this mapPreliminary p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/five-information-meetings-about-formas-open-call-2016 - 2025-10-01

PhD student Behnaz Pirzamanbin has been awarded twice for the paper "Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land cover and uncertainties", both as winner and honorary mention. Congratulation to Environmental Science PhD student Behnaz Pirzamanbin and MERGE colleagues, who has been awarded twice for the paper Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/two-awards-phd-student-paper - 2025-10-01

The Tibetan Plateau has long been seen as a “hotspot” for international environmental research, and there have been fears that water supplies in the major Asian rivers would drastically decline in the near future. However, new research now shows that water supplies will be stable and may even increase in the coming decades. Read more about the work of Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and MER

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/water-supplies-tibet-set-increase-future - 2025-10-01

On 28-29 April the 2016 MERGE Spring Meeting will take place in Norrköping, focusing on CMIP6 and EC-Earth. Sign up before 12 Apri! On 28-29 April the 2016 MERGE Spring Meeting will take place in Norrköping, focusing on CMIP6 and EC-Earth. MERGE researchers have been actively contributing to EC-Earth developments ahead of CMIP6 experiments with EC-Earth. The coming months and years will see even m

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-merge-spring-meeting-2016 - 2025-10-01

ACTRIS is the European Research Infrastructure for the observation of Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases. On 10 March 2016, it was accepted as one of the EU’s strategically important research infrastructures by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, ESFRI. Six new areas have been defined as especially important for the European research society, one of which is atmospheric researc

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/swedish-researchers-build-new-european-infrastructure-atmospheric-research - 2025-10-01

Interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world? The application is now open for participation in the two-year research school: ClimBEco. Opportunity for PhD students interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world:It is now open to apply for participation in the next t

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/call-applications-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2016-2018 - 2025-10-01

In many parts of the world, grass and forest fires pose a threat to animals and humans. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, while climate change is likely to cause more and larger fires, in the future, more and more people will become directly affected as a result of demographic changes. Wolfgang Knorr at Lund University, together with colleagues from Germany and China, has st

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/demographic-changes-increase-risk-natural-fires - 2025-10-01

Welcome to a workshop to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE, August 22-24. Sign up by June 23rd! The workshop will start just before lunch on August 22 and stop in the early afternoon on August 24.The aim of the workshops is to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE. Specifically, we want to develop efficie

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-workshop-aerosol-climate-interactions - 2025-10-01

Forests have long been seen as a sink for greenhouse gases. Research conducted by scientists from University of Gothenburg has shown that over a forest rotation of 80 years, forest production on drained peat soil is a large source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. MERGE/BECC researchers Hongxing He and Åsa Kasimir, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, are two of the authors

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forest-production-drained-peat-release-greenhouse-gases - 2025-10-01