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Det nya projektet ”Skogsbrukets klimatanpassning för resiliens i skogen” (FORESTCARE), ska sammanställa befintlig kunskap för att stödja övergången till ett mer motståndskraftigt skogsbruk. Projektet har beviljats 4 miljoner kronor i anslag från Formas, inom ramen för utlysningen ”Kunskapsöversikter för klimatomställning”. Professor Markku Rummukainen berättar mer om projektet och finansieringen: 

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/nytt-projekt-om-klimatanpassning-i-skogen - 2026-09-15

Extrema väderhändelser utsätter transportinfrastrukturen för allt större påfrestningar, särskilt i glesbefolkade regioner. I ett nytt forskningsprojekt som finansieras av Formas kommer docent Pengxiang Zhao att kartlägga strategier för att förbättra transportsystemets motståndskraft och tillgänglighet i ett föränderligt klimat. Bidraget på 4 miljoner kroner kommer från Formas inom utlysningen ”Kun

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/nytt-formas-projekt-om-transporter-vid-extrema-vaderhandelser - 2026-09-15

Klimatförändringarna förändrar de kallaste regionerna på vår planet i en aldrig tidigare skådad takt. Ändå förbises ofta en av de viktigaste faktorerna som styr hur inlandsisar, glaciärer och permafrost reagerar: snön. Detta ska ett nytt EU-projekt råda bot på. SnowPI (Polar Snow, Permafrost and Inland Ice in a Changing World) är ett nystartat forskningsprojekt inom EU:s forskningsprogram Horisont

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/sno-i-fokus-nytt-eu-projekt-tar-sig-dold-drivkraft-bakom-klimatforandringarna - 2026-09-15

Att skogsägare känner starkt för sin skog innebär inte automatiskt att de gör mer för att främja biologisk mångfald. Dessutom riskerar dagens system för frivilligt skydd att missa de mest värdefulla naturområdena. Det visar en ny avhandling av Hanna Ekström Pigot. I studien har 23 skogsägare i södra Sverige intervjuats. Många av skogsägarna har en tydlig och känslomässig relation till sin skog, so

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/omsorg-om-skogen-ger-inte-alltid-hogre-biologisk-mangfald - 2026-09-15

Genom att kombinera satellitdata, matematisk och statistisk ekosystemmodellering samt AI går det att få tidigare och mer tillförlitliga skördeprognoser, vilket är avgörande för framtidens livsmedelssäkerhet. Det visar en ny avhandling från Lunds universitet. Att möta livsmedelsbehovet hos en växande befolkning med begränsade jordbruksresurser är en av vår tids största utmaningar. Grödornas avkastn

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-kan-ge-tillforlitligare-skordeprognoser - 2026-09-15

En ny masterinriktning inom livsvetenskaper visar på hur beräkningsvetenskap kan tillämpas inom medicin och biologi. Satsningen speglar ett växande behov av matematiskt och tekniskt kunniga naturvetare som vill lösa komplexa problem inom livsvetenskaperna. Denna artikel publicerades 28 augusti på naturvetenskapliga fakultetens hemsida.Den nya inriktningen är en del av det befintliga masterprogramm

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/matte-och-medicin-kopplas-ihop-i-ny-masterinriktning-i-berakningsvetenskap - 2026-09-15

En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att förändrad markanvändning inte bara minskar antalet insekter – den ökar även risken för inavel bland svenska fjärilar. Detta gäller särskilt arter med specifika krav på livsmiljöer, vilket kan få allvarliga konsekvenser för deras långsiktiga överlevnad. Artikeln publicerades ursprungligen den 13 augusti 2025 på naturvetenskapliga fakultetens webbplats. 

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/forandrad-markanvandning-leder-till-okad-inavel-hos-svenska-fjarilar - 2026-09-15

Under hela sin forskarkarriär har Birger Schmitz, professor emeritus vid fysiska institutionen, burit på idén att skriva en populärvetenskaplig bok om sitt forskningsfält astrogeobiologin. Nu släpper han Dinosauriernas död, meteoriterna och livets väg. Artikeln publicerades ursprungligen den 13 juni 2025 på naturvetenskapliga fakultetens webbplats.Hur fick du idén till boken?– I min forskning gör

https://www.mgeo.lu.se/artikel/geologiprofessor-debuterar-med-bok-om-dinosauriernas-dod - 2026-09-15

To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations.Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a step change in how to measure poverty and other human development indicators. Our team has used a type of AI

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/conversation-how-ai-sees-world-what-happened-when-we-trained-deep-learning-model-identify-poverty - 2026-09-15

Every year, the Swedish Riksdag organises a research day. This year the theme was “artificial intelligence”. The aim is to give Members of Parliament the opportunity to gain new knowledge and to highlight the value of science for politics, democracy, and parliamentary decision-making. This year, Johan Axhamn, senior lecturer in Business Law here at LUSEM, was the sole representative from Lund Univ

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/johan-axhamn-represented-lund-swedish-riksdags-seminar-ai - 2026-09-15

Lund University’s fastest growing online course can have up to a thousand new participants every week. ‘AI, business and the future of work’ is a success story – but behind it lies many hours of hard work. “In total, we have probably spent 8,000 hours preparing and producing the course,” says Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, currently senior lecturer in European Studies and deputy dean of the Joint Facu

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/tens-thousands-sign-ai-related-mooc - 2026-09-15

In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial fibrillation, many days of ECGs may be required for diagnosis – “long-term ECG recordings”. These recordings must then undergo a time-consuming and human resource-intensive review to identify heart rhythm abnormalities. In a large international study, researcher

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2026-09-15

New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent more cases of cancer compared with traditional screening. More invasive cancers were also clearly detected at an early stage using AI. Now the final part of the research study will focus on breast cancer missed by screeni

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2026-09-15

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.becc.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2026-09-15

Wild bees that ingest the neonicotinoid clothianidin when they feed from nectar of rapeseed flowers grown from clothianidin-coated seeds, become lethargic. In addition, strawberries pollinated by these bees become smaller. These are the results of a study conducted by three BECC researchers at Lund University. Wild and managed bees are important providers of pollination services and benefit the pr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/smaller-strawberries-after-pollination-red-mason-bees-have-ingested-neonicotinoid-clothianidin - 2026-09-15

Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now, BECC researcher Louise C Andresen among others, are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional carbon sink in the long term. As forests age, their uptake of CO2 declines and, each time forests are planted, there is a risk of additional carbon bei

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/planting-trees-not-always-effective-way-binding-carbon-dioxide - 2026-09-15

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 BECC-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 epis

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2026-09-15

A new study led by Lund University with researchers at BECC shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2026-09-15

Climate change threatens slow-growing tree species that are important carbon storages according to a new thesis by BECC researcher Maria Witteman. The rainforest's ability to store carbon may decrease in step with climate change according to a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg written by BECC researcher Maria Witteman. The photosynthesis of leaves becomes less effective at higher temper

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/rainforest-grows-warmer-trees-become-overheated - 2026-09-15

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.becc.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2026-09-15