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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.science.lu.se/article/new-climate-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2026-07-13

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 - 2026-07-13

CIRCLE in Almedalen: Climate change, geopolitical tensions, and rapid technological development are challenging our social structures. At the same time, they create opportunities for innovation and new ways of thinking. The key question is: how can we turn uncertainty into action and build resilience for the future? During this year’s Almedalsveckan in Visby, where politicians, researchers, busine

https://www.circle.lu.se/article/crisis-opportunity-how-can-we-build-stronger-society - 2026-07-13

Innovation is on the rise at Lund University. More and more researchers want to see how their research can be put to use through new treatments, products or services that reach society. In 2025, 161 ideas came in from researchers seeking support, compared to 125 the previous year. In total, almost 850 students and researchers received support from LU Innovation during the year. In 2025, LU Innovat

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2026/record-number-lund-university-researchers-interested-innovation - 2026-07-13

CMES Deputy Director has co-authored an article on agricultural water in Iran published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Large discrepancy between future demand and supply of agricultural water in northwestern Iran; evidence from WEAP-MODFLOW-machine learning under the CMIP6 scenario" together with Mostafa Rahimi Jamnan

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agricultural-water-iran-0 - 2026-07-13

A new study may have uncovered why wall lizards have become the most successful reptile in the Mediterranean region. The results reveal how drastic changes in sea levels and climate 6 million years ago affected species formation in the area. The researchers believe they can now explain why the lizards became so diverse and widespread, something that has puzzled biologists since the 19th century. T

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/new-species-formed-when-mediterranean-dried - 2026-07-13

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Statistiken visar att andelen kvinnliga professorer vid LU knappt kommer upp till en fjärdedel. Ser man till fakulteterna har Juridicum dock lyckats – hälften av professorerna där är kvinnor. Ekonomerna intar jumboplatsen med endast tio procent kvinnliga professorer. – Det är inte alls bra – men inte riktigt lika il

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fortfarande-fa-kvinnliga-professorer - 2026-07-13

The annual follow-up for 2025 shows that the University’s systematic work environment management is functioning well and developing in a positive direction. The follow-up provides an overall picture of how work environment management is planned, implemented, monitored and improved at different levels within the organisation. At university-wide level, all aspects of systematic work environment mana

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/universitys-work-environment-management-continues-develop - 2026-07-14

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 been used in the research, and the results are an important contribution to understanding temperature changes now and in the future. The Arctic is the area in the world that is heating up the fastest, through so-called

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-temperature-analysis-over-thousand-years - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Being director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics is about choosing what to do, and what not to do. At the start, Lena Neij travelled a lot, but now she sees representing the institute abroad as a responsibility shared by all the staff. She still supervises doctoral students, but doe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/there-are-lot-duties-role - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The International Energy Agency releases a Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation on Thursday, 2 July. Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE Policy analysis team participated in the process.The new report identifies the critical areas where accelerated innovation is urgently needed if countries and companies are to me

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-ieas-special-report-clean-energy-innovation - 2026-07-13

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/behind-headlines-reporting-israel-hamas-war - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund researcher Mauno Vihinen has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation to develop AI methods that in the long run enable improved cancer diagnosis. One of the researchers who has received a grant from the Cancer Foundation is Mauno Vihinen, professor of medical structural biology at the Department of Experiment

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/improved-and-tailored-prediction-methods-cancer - 2026-07-13

Roberto García-Roa, postdoc at the department of Biology has won yet another prestigious photo award. This time he’s the overall winner of “Capturing Ecology”, the British Ecological Society photo competition. Congratulations Roberto, what does this award mean to you? – It’s very special! First, it links two powerful allies, science and photography. They are probably two of the best tools we have

https://www.science.lu.se/article/sharp-shooting-biologist-winner-international-photography-award - 2026-07-13

Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovative research in the field of medical chemistry. How does it feel to receive this prestigious award? – It’s a great honour for me to be awarded the Berzelius Medal and for our research to receive such notice. I began my p

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/anna-blom-receives-2021-berzelius-medal-advances-medical-chemistry - 2026-07-13

Swedish higher education institutions have recently highlighted several problems concerning international students and researchers and their opportunities to enter, stay and work in Sweden. This is not only a considerable concern for individuals, but also affects higher education institutions’ competitiveness and ultimately that of Sweden. I have previously written in the blog about amendments to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-initiatives-remove-obstacles-international-researchers - 2026-07-13

The International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH) awards the Robert P. Grant medal to Björn Dahlbäck, professor emeritus in clinical chemistry at Lund University. The medal is the society's most prestigious award, and Björn Dahlbäck receives it for his outstanding achievements in the field of thrombosis and hemostasis. Björn Dahlbäck received the medal on June 24 at the opening ceremon

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/robert-p-grant-medal-bjorn-dahlback - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How come bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2026-07-13

LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund University have been pioneers in the interdisciplinary field of sustainability studies. In 2008, when the Faculty of Social Sciences establishe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2026-07-13

Moonlight determines when the red-necked nightjar feeds, migrates and raises its young. A groundbreaking long-term study from Lund University shows how the migratory bird’s entire annual cycle follows the moon’s rhythm. “… the lovely, melancholy moonlight, which makes the birds dream in the trees…”The French poet Paul Verlaine was seemingly wrong in his famous poem Clair de Lune. Moonlight does no

https://www.science.lu.se/article/nocturnal-migratory-birds-follow-rhythm-moon - 2026-07-13