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A unique study has analyzed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as poorer regions, are insufficiently funded. Consequently, the majority of payments are going to the regions causing the

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/revealed-how-billions-eu-farming-subsidies-are-being-misspent - 2025-12-05

Population density, and not the proportion of green spaces, has the biggest impact on species richness of pollinators in residential areas. This is the result of a study from Lund University in Sweden of gardens and residential courtyards in and around Malmö, Sweden. The result surprised the researchers, who had expected that the vegetation cover would be more significant.“We have found that, in c

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/high-human-population-density-negative-pollinators - 2025-12-05

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was made possible through DNA analysis. At midsummer in 1495, the Danish King Hans was e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2025-12-05

CEC is one of the actors behind a new international education programme with the purpose to strengthen innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The target group is public service professionals in Indonesia and Turkey, and it is now open for applications. The programme is a part of the Swedish Institute’s Public Sector Innovation Programme and this is the s

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-provides-education-co-design-and-inclusive-public-environments - 2025-12-05

The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in an online format. Our climate researcher Markku Rummukainen comments on the event. When

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-12-05

Researchers at the Pufendorf Institute are working together in a Theme about Invasive Alien Plants, and are interested in finding out how the public, as well as experts, regard different plants in private gardens as well as in public spaces. Why are certain plants defined as more desirable than others, by whom, and how? Researchers now want to get help from the public to get a better understanding

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-want-know-how-public-perceive-invasive-alien-plants - 2025-12-05

How can previous warm periods in the ocean help us better understand the ongoing climate change? PhD student Sha Ni defends her dissertation at CEC this week with fossil findings that can improve the knowledge of the current global warming. Congratulations on your dissertation coming up! How would you describe your research to people unfamiliar with your field? “I study the past climate conditions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/past-ocean-conditions-give-clues-marine-environmental-changes - 2025-12-05

The forest investigation recently submitted to the Swedish government gives suggestions on creating synergies between international and national commitments on biodiversity and a growing circular bioeconomy. A new report by CEC researchers concludes that forests and forestry also play multiple, key roles for climate change mitigation. The new report provides knowledge relevant for land users and p

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forestry-plays-key-role-swedens-climate-change-mitigation - 2025-12-05

CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with separate Director and Chair of the Board will strengthen CEC. The Director will be supported by four Assistant Directors focusing on undergraduate educ

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-year-new-name-new-director-and-new-organisation-cec - 2025-12-05

2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do researchers want to see in 2021? Researchers in climate and sustainability at Lund University list their hopes an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2025-12-05

The 2021 Tage Erlander visiting professorship has been awarded Beth Parker, professor in hydrogeology at Guelph University, Canada. During her time in Sweden, professor Beth Parker will be active mainly at Lund University. https://www.vr.se/english/applying-for-funding/decisions/2020-05-28-tage-erlander-visiting-professorship.html

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/beth-parker-2021-tage-erlander-visiting-professor-will-work-department-geology - 2025-12-05

  Daniel Conley is investigating the seas of ancient times. His sights are set on finding a moment in time when the chemistry of the oceans changed completely, when the diatoms became common, which changed the Earth's ecosystem. In addition to be a major food source, the algae absorb large quantities of silicon from the oceans. They absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. As much as 20 percent

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/daniel-conley-investigating-seas-ancient-times - 2025-12-05

In its yearly call for infrastructure projects, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (an independent foundation for the advancement of the humanities and social sciences) has awarded 7.7 MSEK to the National Swedish Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology at the Department of Geology. The project, which is based on collaboration with Humlab in Umeå and dendrochronology laboratories at three other Sw

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/old-wood-new-light - 2025-12-05

Charlotte Sparrenbom has been awarded the Lund students' pedagogical prize for outstanding contributions to education. The Vice Chancellor appoints three prize winners for the entire university on the basis of proposals from the student unions' nomination process. Lotta receives a diploma and a prize of SEK 25,000 for study trips in the service. Read more in Lundagård.. It is a great pleasure for

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/charlotte-sparrenbom-has-been-awarded-lund-students-pedagogical-prize-outstanding-contributions - 2025-12-05

The terrestrial silicon (Si) cycle determines the amount of Si transported to the oceans. In this study we use Si isotopes measured in diatoms to show how human activity influences the Si budget of Lake Tiefer See (Germany) within the last 4300 years. Deforestation and crop harvest in the catchment are the dominant processes altering Si fluxes on centennial time scales. Link to the article.

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/carla-nantke-publishes-study-where-they-track-human-activities-during-last-4300-years-studying-si - 2025-12-05

Press Release Scientific Study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/new-study-shows-lake-mien-was-formed-meteoric-impact - 2025-12-05

This Friday (23 April 2021) is the official opening for submissions to the new journal Interdisciplinary Egyptology. Co-founded by Dr Amber Hood, one of our geoarchaeologists/archaeological scientists at the Department of Geology, this is an exciting new initiative that she has been working on with her fellow Egyptologists Dr Aaron de Souza (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Prof Christiana Köhler

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/official-launch-new-journal-interdisciplinary-egyptology-co-founded-dr-amber-hood-one-our - 2025-12-05

Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the rate of change in an ecosystem’s plant-life increases significantly during the years following human settlement, with the most dramatic changes occurring in locations colonized in the last 1500 years.  An international research team, including Karl Ljung and Svante Björck, studied fossilised

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/study-reveals-extent-human-impact-worlds-plant-life - 2025-12-05

The annual dendrochronological conference TRACE 2021 (Tree-Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology) has for the first time ever been hosted by a University in Scandinavia. The event, which due to the Corona pandemic was virtual, had 273 participants from 37 countries. During the days before and after the conference, a number of workshops were also arranged. If you would like to download the

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/annual-dendrochronological-conference-trace-2021-tree-rings-archaeology-climatology-and-ecology-has - 2025-12-05

As of 17 August Lund University will initiate a stepwise return to campus-based work and education, provided that conditions allow with regards to the pandemic. The current decisions by the Vice Chancellor on June 17 and the Dean of the Faculty of Science on  June 23 provide a time table for the return to campus. General and regularly updated information is available here.  Key dates:   Education

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/return-campus-based-activities - 2025-12-05