Can we already see the effects of a warmer climate? By studying changes in the presence of various plants and animals, we can get signals about what is happening in our environment. In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote about her fears that birdsong would be silenced when birds...
As a consequence of climate change, we may need to get used to increasingly extreme weather in the future – periods of drought as well as heavy downpours. In recent years, our cities have proved vulnerable to flooding after intense rain. This problem became very clear in Malmö in 2014...
How does weather and climate variability affect the Middle East in regards to migration, decarbonisation, and food security? Postdoc and lecturer Lina Eklund at Lund University sheds light on the complexities of the region and how projects are making a difference. “Climate variability, drought for example, is nothing new or...
The last few years several newspapers have claimed that climate change will lead to “millions of climate refugees”. But according to Angela Oels, migration in fact isn’t caused only by a single factor: “For us, from the social sciences. It is very important to highlight that there is no simple...
Royal climate change researcher Harriet Bulkeley doesn’t believe that directives from above cause us to change our behaviour. On the other hand, she believes in the creative and fumbling environmental experiments that she has seen popping up in cities around the world. Now she is going to study climate-friendly initiatives...
People in Sweden eat 25 per cent more meat than the amounts recommended by the National Food Agency. This is shown in a new study from Lund University that has also investigated the impact on both health and climate change of a corresponding reduction in meat consumption. The results show...
Local authorities are increasingly realising that they cannot deal with the growing problem of weather-related disasters, and that time is running out. “Protecting cities from climate change and weather events needs to become routine”, says Christine Wamsler, who conducts research on how cities can stand up to variations in climate,...
Opinion by Margareta Johansson, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science 2014 The Arctic is where it’s happening. Rising temperatures there are double what they are in the rest of the world. The consequences of higher temperatures, shrinking glaciers and thawing permafrost* are of global interest, because what happens in...
Snow, frost, water and ice – for many years researchers have studied the impact of climate change on the cryosphere, i.e. all the frozen water in the land and sea. So far, the average temperature in the Arctic has risen by over twice as much as in the rest of...
