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Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Esther Githumbi and Johan Lindström use pollen from the ice age to the present to inform vegetation models and find crucial an

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/old-pollen-seed-can-predict-tomorrows-climate - 2025-09-29

The theme of the ClimBEco annual meeting was “Multidisciplinary learning environments – seizing their opportunities and avoiding their pitfalls”. After an icebreaker that included seeing some sweet ‘corona-pets’ in the screens, we brought ourselves onto the level of metaphysics and the multiple ways of knowing about the world. We considered the epistemological breadth in the ‘doing of science’ at

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-winter-meeting-2021 - 2025-09-29

See climate scenarios interactively displayed as maps and diagrams. SMHI's web service provides easy to use information to the general public as well as to decision makers.  The new web service presents and describes results of climate research conducted at the Rossby Centre, SMHI, with the aim to provide easy to use informaton to the general public as well as to decision makers.Climate scenarios

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/smhi-launches-new-web-service-climate-scenarios - 2025-09-29

From September to December there will be a course about the WG1 report from IPCC: Climate Change - The Physical Science Basis. A coming course at the University of Gothenburg will review the IPCC WGI report, “Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis”.Course leaders: erik [dot] thomson [at] chem [dot] gu [dot] se (Erik Thomson) and ravikant [at] chem [dot] gu [dot] se (Ravikant Pathak).Short

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-course-about-review-ipcc-wg1-report - 2025-09-29

Deadline June 11 Joint MERGE and BECC funding instrument for Short Projects MERGE Short Projects MERGE workshops MERGE welcomes proposals for 1. short research projects for the years 2021-22 with the MERGE Research Strategy 2020-2025 as a point of departure. 2. MERGE workshops during 2021 3. MERGE-BECC joint short projects for the years 2021-2022 You find the full description for each grant on the

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/3-merge-calls-open - 2025-09-29

Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon, but warmer and drier conditions caused by climate change may turn these ecosystems into carbon sources. Equipped with drones and thermal cameras Julia Kelly, who recently received her doctorate at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), has studied what factors affect the CO2 fluxes in peatland ecosystems. Boreal forests and peatlands

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/drones-offer-new-insights-boreal-peatland-co2-emissions - 2025-09-29

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the report makes absolutely clear is that to stop warming, hum

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-09-29

Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are launching the first global report that integrates the two issues. This is a welcome and much needed move, according to three researchers at the Univ

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-measures-support-both-climate-and-biodiversity - 2025-09-29

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we currently face in the world, reflected in the overall title of the summer meeting. To start off the e

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2025-09-29

Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate. By affecting the atmosphere’s ability to form cloud droplets and ice particles, soot can dislodge the radiation balance. This according to doctoral student John Falk, who is currently working on his dissertation about cloud droplet and ice particle formation in clou

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/iceparticles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2025-09-29

Earlier this week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University, USA, and Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. Birgitta Svenningsson and Deliang Chen are happy about the choice o

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researchers-celebrate-nobel-prize-2021-reciever-physics - 2025-09-29

The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions still have significant uncertainties. This is hampering efforts to curb climate change and deal with the effects we already see at play not only within the Polar regions, but also in Europe and the rest of the world. Po

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/exploring-future-climates-polar-regions - 2025-09-29

Dear all, We are proud to welcome you to the first national scientific climate conference in Sweden - a unique opportunity for climate scientists to interact, reflect, and identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for the future. The Swedish Climate Symposium will highlight the main conclusions of the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC and its consequences for Sweden. In a series of topical p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/welcome-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-09-29

In February, ClimBEco PhD students gathered for our annual winter meeting. For the second consecutive year – but hopefully for the last time – the meeting was held digitally due to pandemic restrictions, with a small lunch gathering at the conclusion. During this two-day event, participants presented their PhD research to each other in an interdisciplinary setting. They had the option of sharing e

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climbeco-winter-meeting-2022-summary - 2025-09-29

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.merge.lu.se/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earth - 2025-09-29

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.merge.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2025-09-29

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 MERGE-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 epi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2025-09-29

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.merge.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-09-29

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.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2022 - 2025-09-29

The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss and damage, adaptation to climate change a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-09-29