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16 Oct 2024
Reduced carbon sink power in the Sahel
Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact on the global carbon cycle, is relatively unexplored with respect to ecosystem functions and impact on climate change. Now one ...
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7 Aug 2024
The bigger role of trees in global carbon cycling
Researcher Patrik Vestin in a " news and views " article in Nature that woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance.
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30 Jul 2024
Open position: Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation
Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East.
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28 Mar 2024
Open position: Postdoctoral fellow in carbon cycle modelling
The Inverse Modelling group at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, seeks to appoint a post-doctoral fellows to work on the quantific...
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15 Mar 2024
EU lifts polar research in the Arctic and Antarctica
Over five years, the EU invests SEK 163 million in the POLARIN research project. The aim is to promote interdisciplinary research in both polar regions. Physical geographer Dr Marg...
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15 Dec 2023
INTERACT docu series and BBC short films about the Arctic
Are you curious about the Arctic, and what it is like to work there? INTERACT is a network of stations around the Arctic that is building capacity for research and monitoring in th...
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27 Oct 2023
Can agriculture shift to perennial grain crops?
Perennial crops have the potential to reduce ploughing and spraying. Lund University and SLU Alnarp have built a unique research infrastructure.
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26 Sep 2023
Project on intelligent geotechnologies for sustainability
The first meeting of the EU-funded project entitled “Intelligent Geotechnologies for Resilient Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Lao PDR".
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21 Sep 2023
Recent study reveals sub-seasonal drought sensitivity across Europe
A new study by an international group of researchers, including three scientists from the department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, offers critical insights into the ...
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13 Jun 2023
Drought affects forest carbon uptake - research at the department highlighted in SVT segment
SVT has interviewed Anders Lindroth about the long-term measurements of forest carbon uptake conducted by ICOS and researchers at the department outside Perstorp in northern Skåne....
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15 May 2023
Risk of failure protecting old forests
Old- growth forests are to a large extent unprotected to logging, and the rate of cutting them down is high, not least in Sweden. Even protected forests are at risk, and the EU is ...
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20 Dec 2022
Academics in debate article: "Young people are right to sue the state"
The Aurora group are young people who recently initiated a process against the state of Sweden for not taking action and treating the climnate crisis as a crisis. More than 1600 re...
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2 Nov 2022
INES staff featured in the media
Lina Eklundh, Tomas Pugh, Anders Ahlström and Markku Rummukainen have been interviewed in different media outlets as experts in their corresponding fields.
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20 Oct 2022
Mapping lacustrine algal blooms globally
In May and June 2020, more that 300 dead elephants were found in Botswana´s Okavango Delta. Initially it was suspected that poaching was the reason, but it was later shown that the...
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26 Sep 2022
Studying old forests and carbon uptake
Looking at old forests, in the small areas of forest lands where they are left untouched, and looking among other things at carbon dynamics. For the team this was a unique experien...
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6 Sep 2022
FLUXES - the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin now released by ICOS
A brand new publication on climate issues is released by ICOS. The leaflet FLUXES - the European Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, aims at highlighting climate issues to an audience of poli...
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30 Aug 2022
Killer heat may make the Middle East uninhabitable within a century
The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has a included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to...
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6 Jul 2022
Thomas Holst awarded LUNA´s pedagogical prize
Thimas Holst, researcher and teacher at out department, have been awarded the pedagogical prize 2022 by the science student union LUNA.
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9 May 2022
Arctic temperature analysis over a thousand years
A research team has created a picture of historical temperatures in the Arctic, spanning over a thousand years. A new technique and a recently published database of proxy data have...
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29 Apr 2022
Investigating drought and other mechanisms behind migration and conflict in Syria
Are weather events such as drought and agricultural productions shocks the main reason for violent conflicts, or are there other mechanisms that should be more considered? A recent...