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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Members of the MERGE board Mattias Hallquist, Birgitta Svenningsson, Paul Miller, David Simpson, Ralf Döschler and Marie-Jose Gaillard are a few of those who have written the debate article due to school strike Global Strike for Future. In a debate article at Dagens Nyheter more than 270 researchers, among many of the

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researchers-supports-demands-youths-manifest-march-15th - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During 7-8 of May, 80 researchers within MERGE and BECC met to learn about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and how their research can be linked, and contribute, to the implementation of the goals. We are just as far from reaching the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as Burkina Faso. We just have different

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/spring-meeting-2019-merge-becc-jointly-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University have contributed to creating a uniquely detailed global climate model that will increase our understanding of climate change. It is the first time that vegetation and land use, at this level of detail, are included in climate modeling within EC-Earth, a global climate and earth system mo

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/unique-climate-model-includes-vegetation-developed - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Results from MERGE is presented in Swedish media A new and improved run on the climatemodel where LPJ-GUESS has been coupled into has given results presented from SMHI. The climate expert at TV4 Susanna Baltscheffsky says that it presents a scary picture of the climatedevelolpent and that the temperature will rise muc

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nya-ron-globala-uppvarmningen-varre-befarat - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year’s meeting was held in Lund and contained intense discussion on MERGE future and dynamics. The meeting started with presenting the four Research areas past, present and ideas for the future. RA1 - Model development and scenarios, was summarized by Paul Miller with input from colleagues. The progress and inclu

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/autumn-meeting-merge-knowledge-gaps - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Deadline May 11 MERGE welcomes proposals for1. short research projectsfor the years 2020-21 with the MERGE Research Strategy 2020-2025 as a point of departure.2. MERGE workshops during 2020The "Short research project"is a call from Lund University where partners are invited as co-applicants, but will only be able to c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/call-open-merge-short-projects-and-merge-workshop-grants-1 - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If you exhale on a clear day in the clean, cold air of the Arctic, you will not see your breath form the cloud we are used to seeing when the temperature drops. The reason for this is that the cloud cannot form without aerosol particles. Moa Sporre, researcher in nuclear physics at Lund University, focuses on how thes

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/particles-baffle-climate-researchers - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-becc-merge-spring-meeting-online-science-says-conference - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ClimBEco’s annual summer meeting was held this August over two consecutive days, with both online and in-person meetings in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg. The summer meeting is one of the highlights of our graduate school, where current PhD students can meet, network and learn more about an interdisciplinary topic. This

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Esther Githumbi and Johan Lindström use polle

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/old-pollen-seed-can-predict-tomorrows-climate - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The theme of the ClimBEco annual meeting was “Multidisciplinary learning environments – seizing their opportunities and avoiding their pitfalls”. After an icebreaker that included seeing some sweet ‘corona-pets’ in the screens, we brought ourselves onto the level of metaphysics and the multiple ways of knowing about t

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-winter-meeting-2021 - 2026-07-19

See climate scenarios interactively displayed as maps and diagrams. SMHI's web service provides easy to use information to the general public as well as to decision makers.  The new web service presents and describes results of climate research conducted at the Rossby Centre, SMHI, with the aim to provide easy to use informaton to the general public as well as to decision makers.Climate scenarios

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/smhi-launches-new-web-service-climate-scenarios - 2026-07-19

From September to December there will be a course about the WG1 report from IPCC: Climate Change - The Physical Science Basis. A coming course at the University of Gothenburg will review the IPCC WGI report, “Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis”.Course leaders: erik [dot] thomson [at] chem [dot] gu [dot] se (Erik Thomson) and ravikant [at] chem [dot] gu [dot] se (Ravikant Pathak).Short

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-course-about-review-ipcc-wg1-report - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Deadline June 11 Joint MERGE and BECC funding instrument for Short Projects MERGE Short Projects MERGE workshops MERGE welcomes proposals for 1. short research projects for the years 2021-22 with the MERGE Research Strategy 2020-2025 as a point of departure. 2. MERGE workshops during 2021 3. MERGE-BECC joint short pro

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/3-merge-calls-open - 2026-07-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Boreal peatlands store large amounts of carbon, but warmer and drier conditions caused by climate change may turn these ecosystems into carbon sources. Equipped with drones and thermal cameras Julia Kelly, who recently received her doctorate at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), has studied what f

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/drones-offer-new-insights-boreal-peatland-co2-emissions - 2026-07-19

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the report makes absolutely clear is that to stop warming, hum

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2026-07-19

Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are launching the first global report that integrates the two issues. This is a welcome and much needed move, according to three researchers at the Univ

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-measures-support-both-climate-and-biodiversity - 2026-07-19

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we currently face in the world, reflected in the overall title of the summer meeting. To start off the e

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2026-07-19

Primitive stoves and diesel engines produce soot particles, besides being bad for your health, have a negative effect on the climate. By affecting the atmosphere’s ability to form cloud droplets and ice particles, soot can dislodge the radiation balance. This according to doctoral student John Falk, who is currently working on his dissertation about cloud droplet and ice particle formation in clou

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/iceparticles-clouds-can-affect-climate - 2026-07-19

Earlier this week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University, USA, and Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. Birgitta Svenningsson and Deliang Chen are happy about the choice o

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researchers-celebrate-nobel-prize-2021-reciever-physics - 2026-07-19