Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:26:44 +0000Latest news in climate research/article/climate-change-plans-include-unrealistic-land-demands-area-larger-usWed, 11 Dec 2024 15:26:44 +0000/article/climate-change-plans-include-unrealistic-land-demands-area-larger-usFor the first time, an international team of scientists have calculated the total land area that the countries of the world have included in their individual plans for climate action, known as nationally determined contributions. The results show a big divide between the countries' expected land use and the actual potential of land to mitigate climate change./article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressorsTue, 14 May 2024 10:44:24 +0000/article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressorsClimate researchers often emphasise the fact that reducing carbon emissions is in everyone’s best interest, and should involve all of us. But how good are they at minimising their own carbon footprint? A new study carried out jointly by ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ in Sweden and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland shows that some of them use up half their annual carbon allowance in a single week. There are ways to cut these emissions, however, the authors behind the study say./article/secondary-forests-more-sensitive-droughtMon, 31 Jul 2023 08:50:09 +0000/article/secondary-forests-more-sensitive-droughtThe dry summer of 2018 hit Swedish forests hard - and hardest affected were the managed secondary forests. This according to a new study from ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ in Sweden./article/new-climate-report-near-term-action-crucialWed, 22 Mar 2023 10:59:40 +0000/article/new-climate-report-near-term-action-crucialThe 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 ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ, answers five question about the new report./article/study-uncovers-widespread-and-ongoing-clearcutting-swedish-old-forestsWed, 09 Nov 2022 09:09:59 +0000/article/study-uncovers-widespread-and-ongoing-clearcutting-swedish-old-forestsAlmost one fourth of Sweden’s last unprotected old-growth forest was logged between 2003 and 2019. At this rate, all of these ecologically unique and valuable forests will be lost in about 50 years. These findings add to the growing body of evidence for widespread cryptic forest degradation across the global north./article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agendaTue, 08 Nov 2022 11:07:01 +0000/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agendaThe UN’s annual climate change conference is currently ongoing in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition./article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earthFri, 06 May 2022 11:03:18 +0000/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earthWhere, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – and contributes with new knowledge in a complex and fraught area./article/mathematic-visualize-climate-changesWed, 22 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000/article/mathematic-visualize-climate-changesHow did we end up here? What do we do to get out of it? In climate research, it is important to understand how the world works if we are to change our behaviour and prevent future catastrophes. Researchers use mathematical formulas to try and visualise reality, in order to find out what changes we need to make./article/tracing-climate-back-100-000-years-greenlandWed, 22 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000/article/tracing-climate-back-100-000-years-greenlandA three-kilometre-long cylinder of ice sheds light on what the climate was like one hundred thousand years ago. The ice contains traces of periods of higher or lower temperatures on Earth, but also of whether there were violent volcanic eruptions and high solar activity. By understanding the climate of the past, researchers can develop better models to predict the climate of the future./article/climate-models-point-way-towards-futureThu, 22 Feb 2018 23:00:00 +0000/article/climate-models-point-way-towards-futureThe climate issue is one of the biggest global societal challenges of our time. Research on where the climate is heading is an important part of that work, both to monitor the impact of emission reductions agreed between countries worldwide in Paris 2015, but also to be better prepared for the elements of climate change we will not be able to avoid. A climate model developed by researchers from ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ and other institutes is becoming increasingly significant in view of the next major international climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)