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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do you feel when you spend a large proportion of your waking hours noting facts about a planet in crisis? What is it like when every day you take a long, hard look at issues concerning global warming and the loss of biodiversity? Quite OK despite everything, is the answer when the question comes up during the Clim

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/beyond-climate-anxiety-there-sadness-and-hope - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Edith Hammer at CEC and the Department of Biology has been named as a Future Research Leader of the Foundation for Strategic Research. She is one of twenty researchers who receive 12 million SEK from the foundation for five years to work on a research project. Edith Hammer's project is about developing an earth chip,

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/edith-future-research-leader - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If you exhale on a clear day in the clean, cold air of the Arctic, you will not see your breath form the cloud we are used to seeing when the temperature drops. The reason for this is that the cloud cannot form without aerosol particles. Moa Sporre, researcher in nuclear physics at Lund University, focuses on how thes

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/particles-baffle-climate-researchers - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Pollinating insects are endangered globally, with a particularly steep decline over the last 40 years. An extensive 3-year study from the CEC has found that organic farming methods can contribute to halting the pollinator decline. This beneficial effect is due to both the absence of insecticides and a higher provision

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/organic-farming-methods-favors-pollinators - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University invests SEK 64 millions in a graduate research school focusing on societal challenges and Agenda 2030. The graduate research school, which will fully expanded include around 20 PhD students, is the first of its kind in Sweden. Sustainability Forum and Centre for Environmental and Climate Research have

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lund-university-invests-graduate-research-school-about-agenda-2030 - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Research Council has commissioned a research review on sexual harassment in academia. The research review of sexual harassment shows that gender harassment is the most common form of exposure within academia, that sexual harassment occurs in all disciplines, that vulnerability is reported by all groups (st

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/research-review-sexual-harassment-academia - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It's been 20 years since the first students in Environmental Science started at Lund University. Great progress has been made in the environmental field since then, but there are still many challenges for future students to work with. Due to the anniversary, the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research invited to

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/20-year-jubilee-environmental-science - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today, Lina Herbertsson from the CEC will take part in the final of Researchers Grand Prix, where researchers from Swedish universities challenge each other making the best oral presentation of their research. The final will take place in Stockholm beginning at 14:00, you can follow the final and vote at forskargrandp

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lina-herbertsson-final-researchers-grand-prix - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. It is important to make science relevant for policy makers, CEC's Jasmine Livingston argues in her recent thesis. Jasmine Livingston from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has written a thesis discussing the connection between policy and climate science. She has studied what takes place both on and beh

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-science-and-climate-politics - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Center for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, received positive responses on research applications from both the European Research Council and Formas, why the organization can continue to develop and recruit both researchers and administrative staff during 2019. "It is CEC's combination of deep knowledge and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-strengthens-organization-new-research-funding - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS, announces that Norunda and additional 14 greenhouse gas measurement stations have been certified for standardized data production. ICOS data helps to reveal the carbon emissions and sinks on a European level, essential for predicting climate change and mitigating its con

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/standardized-greenhouse-gas-measurement-helps-predict-and-mitigate-climate-change - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth and its polar bears and melting glaciers have become key symbols of climate change. But the Arctic, it seems, is not as well researched as we think it is. Since the Arctic covers some 14.5 million square kilometers, and conducting research in remote locations is

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/environmental-change-arctic - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Soil security provides a framework for appreciating the importance of soils for planetary health and in turn human wellbeing. Mark Brady from the CEC has given a plenary talk called What role might economics play with soil science for achieving soil security? at the Soil Security and Planetary Health Conference at The

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/soil-security-and-economics - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Simon Herzog has studied what factors determine the fate of iron from boreal rivers and is now defending his thesis "Fate of riverine iron over estuarine salinity gradients". Rivers have traditionally not been considered important sources of bioavailable iron (Fe) to the marine waters, since most iron is lost by salin

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/iron-boreal-rivers - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Global environmental problems can be addressed by means of policy instruments such as carbon dioxide taxes, building and technology standards and support for new technology, but the issues are complex and several environmental challenges must be addressed simultaneously in order to achieve optimal effect. This is evid

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/environmental-challenges-must-be-addressed-simultaneously - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the forests age, weather conditions and how the forest is managed. Young growing forests store a lot of carbon, as th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CEC is in an expansive phase and the number of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and administrative staff increased during 2018. 2018 was the year for celebrating 20 successful years, with more than 1,000 graduates from the study programme in Environmental Science. In October, CEC arranged a jubilee for current

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-annual-report-2018 - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CEC has been granted funding for a so-called collaborative initiative to find solutions for sustainable land use in Sweden, with emphasis on Skåne. The collaborative initiative called LU Land is to be a platform where different sectors, interests and research topics jointly address the challenges that an increasing ne

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/land-use-sustainable-future - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The national Swedish radio visited Lund to talk about pollinating insects and study their wintering sites. Pollinating insects are threatened by food shortages, by toxins, by climate change and because environments where insects can seek protection are disappearing. Sara Sällström from the Swedish radio met CEC's Lina

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lack-settlements-threatens-biodiversity - 2026-04-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An exhibition, a seminar on urban nature and a climate crash course – that's how CEC contributed to the Sustainability week 2019. Markku Rummukainen and Maria von Post gave a crash course in climate change and biological diversity together with colleagues at Lund University. A summary is published (in Swedish) on Face

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-during-sustainability-week - 2026-04-15