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16 Oct 2025
Jonas Åkerman’s Last Excursion – and the Story of a Department
From a room in the University Building, via AF-borgen and today’s Centre for Languages and Literature, to the current premises at Geocentrum. From being a small part of the Departm...
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9 Oct 2025
Opening: Climate and Forests – A New Popular Science Exhibition at Naturum Skrylle
Are you curious about how forests affect the climate, how the climate affects forests, and how we can actually know anything about the forests of the future? Then this new exhibiti...
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26 Aug 2025
Call for Nominations: 2026 Vega Medal in Physical Geography
Each year, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) awards a gold medal to an outstanding researcher in physical geography, human geography, or anthropology. Every...
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11 Jul 2025
How can artificial intelligence help us better predict the future of our planet?
AI and future research was the central question when researchers from across Europe gathered at Lund University earlier this summer for the second full consortium meeting of AI4PEX...
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10 Apr 2025
Rewilding - good for the planet and people
Allowing nature to cover up after human activities, known as rewilding, has several benefits. It improves the resilience of ecosystems, increases biodiversity and favours the inter...
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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...