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Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm received the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research at the annual LUDC Diabetes Research Day. "This award allows me to rest in the feeling that all the work I have done is good enough, at least for a short while,” said the recipient. Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg is this year’s recipient of the Leif C. Groop

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-event-highlighted-findings-may-lead-new-treatments - 2025-09-29

Small passerine birds, such as blue and great tits, avoid breeding in urban areas where there are many non-native trees. Chicks also weigh less the more non-native trees there are in the vicinity of the nest. This is shown in a long-term study from Lund University in Sweden. City trees contribute to several important ecosystem services such as lowering local temperature and purifying air but are a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/urban-birds-prefer-native-trees - 2025-09-29

Nature-based solutions offer excellent opportunities to address environmental and social challenges. They can help mitigate climate change and protect biodiversity. However, better governance and funding, complemented by clear political priorities, are needed to scale up such solutions in the Nordic region. This is the finding of a new research report from the Nordic Council of Ministers, in which

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/opportunities-scale-nature-based-solutions-nordics - 2025-09-29

With the arrival of spring, bumblebee queens take their first wing beat of the season and set out to find new nesting sites. But they are flying earlier in the year as a result of warmer climate and changing agricultural landscape, new research shows. – The risk is that we will lose additional bumblebee species and have reduced pollination of crops and wild plants, says researcher Maria Blasi Rome

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-means-early-flight-start-risk-fewer-bumblebees-and-reduced-pollination - 2025-09-29

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for the IPCC and also Professor of Climatology at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, answers five question about the new report. What does the new synthesis report say? - The Synthesis Report

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-new-ipcc-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2025-09-29

The world is changing; we have experienced societal disruption due to global hazards such as pandemics and climate change. Environments or institutions that were taken for granted are suddenly at risk, forcing us to consider new risks that require careful development of concepts and theories, as well as novel approaches to assessment.  This is the theme of the upcoming international conference SRA

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/sra-conference-lund-discover-risk-research - 2025-09-29

Fifteen years ago, the first doctoral students began their education at CEC. Since then, there have been 240 PhD students from CEC and ClimBEco, the research school hosted by CEC. This week, about 60 of them gathered for a joint alumni celebration with networking, workshops and lectures at AF-borgen in Lund. The alumni of CEC and ClimBEco are now in very different fields, some have researched and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-and-climbeco-alumni-come-together-celebration-and-networking - 2025-09-29

The city is the perfect place to study nature and how humans affect it, says Johan Kjellberg Jensen. In a new dissertation from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) at Lund University, he explores the interaction between plants, animals, and humans in the physical environment of cities.  Many of us associate 'nature' with something we go to the countryside to experience. But natu

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/city-our-most-important-ecosystem - 2025-09-29

Preschool and primary school children will now be able to learn more about insects, birds, flowers and plants, how valuable they are and how people can protect nature. The Natural Nations co-operation project is introducing biodiversity into the curriculum. In the past, knowledge of species and nature was part of general education, and knowledge was also transmitted between generations. Today, the

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/children-and-biologists-research-biodiversity-together - 2025-09-29

On 15-17 May 2024, SMHI, the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research invite you to the second Swedish Climate Symposium in Norrköping. A symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Climate change strongly affects natural systems and humanity. In Sweden, the effects of climate change a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/time-submit-your-contribution-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-09-29

The UN's annual climate summit, COP28, is just around the corner. Starting on 30 November, the world's countries will meet for two weeks to discuss global climate cooperation and how to achieve the climate goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This time the meeting will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We put five questions to Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's re

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-questions-markku-rummukainen-ahead-cop28-climate-summit - 2025-09-29

CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to five (5) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science. Note: It is the researcher who apply for this funding, not the student.The doctoral student will be employed at and have their main workplace

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science - 2025-09-29

What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if machine learning allowed surgeons to precisely remove tumour cells on the operating table? These are the areas of research that Emil Andersson has been exploring to get closer to a solution. He successfully defended his PhD in computational biology at CEC. His th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/one-step-closer-towards-improving-cancer-surgery-and-reprogramming-cells - 2025-09-29

A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done. Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-targe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-pollinators - 2025-09-29

Congratulations on the funding for the research infrastructure ICOS, Natascha Kljun, Scientific Principle Investigator of the Lund University ICOS stations! ICOS Sweden has been awarded a grant of 43.8 million SEK from VR to operate 10 stations for a period of three years. “Thank you! Yes, these are fantastic news. The grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) will allow us to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/congratulations-icos - 2025-09-29

Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara examined how nanoplastics that end up in the soil affect the microorganisms living there. The answer is clear: there is an effect on the organisms and how they behave. One could say that Micaela Mafla-Endara and her tea

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nanoplastics-influence-microbial-activity-soil - 2025-09-29

A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Botany and Zoology has been awarded every three years since 1935 to Swedish researchers whom the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund considers to be well deserving. In 2023, the prize is awarded to Henrik Smith for his research e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-henrik-smith-receives-rosen-linnaeus-prize-zoology - 2025-09-29

A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, was finalised last week. Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's contact person for the IPCC, participated digitally and comments the decisions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-deal-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-systems - 2025-09-29

Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Katarina Hedlund, professor at the Department of Biology, has been the Deputy Director of CEC for many years. She has also been Director of studies at CEC. “It will be easy to take over such a well-run organizati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/katarina-hedlund-new-director-cec - 2025-09-29

On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you do

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-09-29