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Mättat fett är mer fettbildande och mindre muskeluppbyggande än fleromättat fett, visar tidigare forskning. En ny studie visar att valet av fett orsakar epigenetiska förändringar som i sin tur skulle kunna bidra till skillnaderna i fettlagringen. Den så kallade ”Muffinsstudien” rönte stor uppmärksamhet när den kom 2014. Deltagarna hade i genomsnitt ätit tre muffins varje dag i sju veckor. Hälften

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-ron-kan-forklara-fordelar-med-fleromattat-fett - 2025-11-21

Fiskar som visar mod i sin jakt på mat blir ofta själva föda åt rovdjur. Blygare individer överlever i högre utsträckning. Forskare i Lund har nu lyckats påvisa ett samband mellan djärva personlighetskaraktärer och risken att dödas av rovdjur i det vilda. Genom att märka mörtar, studera deras personligheter och sedan undersöka vilka individer som blir föda åt skarvar visar biologer vid Lunds unive

https://www.lu.se/artikel/modiga-mortar-betalar-med-sina-liv - 2025-11-21

Sociologen Chares Demetriou som forskar om våldsdåd med politiska förtecken, menar att de senaste årens attacker som begåtts i namnet av IS eller Al Qaida skiljer sig på några viktiga punkter från annat politiskt våld. - Till skillnad från tidigare våldsdåd under 1900-talet så finns i det här fallet inte någon tydlig organisation bakom. Det finns alltså ingen ledare som ger en konkret order om att

https://www.lu.se/artikel/vad-finns-skillnader-och-likheter-mellan-dagens-och-gardagens-terrorism - 2025-11-21

Den 15 maj arrangerar Lunds universitets Hållbarhetsforum tillsammans med Region Skåne en konferens om bioekonomi. Temat är möjligheter och utmaningar i samhällets omställning till en cirkulär biobaserad ekonomi. Under dagen samlas bransch, akademi och samhällsorganisationer. Bioekonomin kommer att leda till nya affärsmöjligheter för näringslivet. Bioekonomi handlar om all ekonomisk aktivitet som

https://www.lu.se/artikel/bioekonomi-skapar-nya-affarsmojligheter - 2025-11-21

Statliga utredningar har dåligt på fötterna när de pekar ut ett omfattande fusk inom den personliga assistansen. Både sittande och tidigare regeringar har baserat sin assistanspolitik på utredningar som saknar vetenskaplig grund. Det visar statsvetarna Niklas Altermark och Hampus Nilsson i en ny rapport från Lunds universitet. Under det senaste två åren har regeringen genomfört en rad förändringar

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-rapport-losa-grunder-fuskanklagelser-inom-personlig-assistans - 2025-11-21

Den här veckan samlas 200 klimatexperter från FN:s klimatpanel IPCC i Addis Abeba för att dra upp riktlinjerna för nästa stora klimatrapport som publiceras 2021. Rapporten utvärderar och sammanfattar forskningsläget och blir viktigt beslutsunderlag till världens ledare. Den blir också viktig underlag för förhandlingarna under klimatkonventionen (UNFCCC). En av två svenska forskare som just nu befi

https://www.lu.se/artikel/klimatforskare-pa-plats-i-addis-abeba - 2025-11-21

Under en hel vecka blir det kultur i form av konserter, föreställningar, utställningar, upptäckardag och mycket annat när Lunds universitets 350-årsjubileum drar igång sin första kulturvecka ”Live i Lundagård”. Under jubileets kulturveckor står universitetets konstnärliga inriktningar samt kultur- och museiverksamheter i fokus. Under årets första kulturvecka som pågår 8-14 maj finns möjligheter at

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lundagard-fylls-av-upplevelser-under-kulturveckan - 2025-11-21

Thomas Pugh, principal investigator at BECC and researcher at MERGE, is one of the researchers behind a new study that is published in Science. In the study, the researchers compared results from three major modeling approaches that provide information on different aspects of risk on the impact of climate change on forests in the 21st century. Forests harbor enormous biodiversity and are a major c

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2025-11-21

Wild bees that ingest the neonicotinoid clothianidin when they feed from nectar of rapeseed flowers grown from clothianidin-coated seeds, become lethargic. In addition, strawberries pollinated by these bees become smaller. These are the results of a study conducted by three BECC researchers at Lund University. Wild and managed bees are important providers of pollination services and benefit the pr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/smaller-strawberries-after-pollination-red-mason-bees-have-ingested-neonicotinoid-clothianidin - 2025-11-21

Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now, BECC researcher Louise C Andresen among others, are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional carbon sink in the long term. As forests age, their uptake of CO2 declines and, each time forests are planted, there is a risk of additional carbon bei

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/planting-trees-not-always-effective-way-binding-carbon-dioxide - 2025-11-21

China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer and the Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts. This is the topic of a new episode of the Swedish podcast Kinapodden with BECC-researcher Deliang Chen as one of the guests. China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer. The Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts, resulting in an acute energy shortage. In a new epis

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2025-11-21

A new study led by Lund University with researchers at BECC shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-11-21

Climate change threatens slow-growing tree species that are important carbon storages according to a new thesis by BECC researcher Maria Witteman. The rainforest's ability to store carbon may decrease in step with climate change according to a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg written by BECC researcher Maria Witteman. The photosynthesis of leaves becomes less effective at higher temper

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/rainforest-grows-warmer-trees-become-overheated - 2025-11-21

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-11-21

How can we protect society from the extremities of a changing climate while also protecting nature and enhancing biodiversity? BECC-researchers Johanna Alkan-Johansson and Helena Hanson are guests in this episode of the podcast by nordics.info. Listen to a dialogue about how nature-based solutions are used in the Nordics, their benefits and their downsides. How can we protect society from the extr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-nature-based-solutions-nordicsinfo-podcast - 2025-11-21

Jonas Ardö and Johannes Rousk are Principal Investigators at BECC. They have both received funding from the recent Formas call that focus on climate and agriculture. In the call “Carbon storage as a climate measure in agriculture” from Formas, six projects received funding to increase knowledge about carbon storage in Swedish agricultural and to support Swedish food production.  Two of the project

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/two-becc-pis-receive-funding-formas-research-climate-and-agriculture - 2025-11-21

After this summer meeting, one cannot understate the importance of and unmistakeable delight in meeting in-person after a long, pandemic-sized hiatus. On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the crisp early autumn of Skåne, a group of 28 ClimBEco PhD students spent two nights and two days getting to know one another and learning about the topic of sustainable coastal environments. Hosted by the Simris

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2022 - 2025-11-21

Just before the start of COP27, IPCC released a popular science version of its latest report on climate change. Deliang Chen, professor at MERGE and BECC, is one of the authors and comments the summary, which is also available for download. To make science on climate change and its effects more available to all, IPCC has released a popular science version of its latest report written in a plain la

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/ipcc-summary-all - 2025-11-21

Swedish, previously uncut forests have been converted to plantations at a steady rate since 2003. In a new study, BECC-researcher Anders Ahlström and his research team find that old forests have been cut and lost by ∼1.4% per year since 2003, and at this rate they will disappear by the 2070s. Natural ecosystems that have experienced limited direct human impact are threatened by land use change. On

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/old-unprotected-forests-might-disappear-2070s-sweden - 2025-11-21

Just over two weeks after the climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. Two researchers with a membership in BECC will attend the meeting. In this article they comment the upcoming meeting together with three of their BECC-affiliated colleagues. The article is published on C

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/it-time-put-biodiversity-agenda-five-lund-researchers-challenges-cop15 - 2025-11-21