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4 Dec 2025
Old air samples hint at effects of climate change
Through the DNA analysis of old air samples collected by the Swedish Armed Forces, researchers at Lund University in Sweden can show that spore dispersal of northern mosses has shi...
2 Dec 2025
Play for change – more biodiversity and less food waste on the gaming table
Can games serve as a method for spreading knowledge and inspiring action? If you ask Karl Sterner Isaksson and Jagdeep Singh, the answer is an obvious yes! They are both currently ...
27 Nov 2025
Swedish Climate Symposium 2026: Call for Abstracts now open
We are delighted to invite you to submit your abstract for the Swedish Climate Symposium: a symposium dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of climate change and its envi...
20 Nov 2025
Continuous-Cover Forestry: Testing Methods for the Future
Continuous-cover forestry aims to deliver more benefits, but significant challenges remain. These will now be addressed in a new project.
7 Nov 2025
BECC members at COP 30
In this post, we’ve put together a few tips for reading featuring BECC members attending COP30 in Belém.
5 Nov 2025
Full House at the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium 2025
In October, the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium 2025 took place – Sweden’s largest interdisciplinary conference on biodiversity. The event brought together researchers, experts and ...
4 Nov 2025
Henrik Smith Receives Award – has a message for academia
One of BECC's founders and former coordinator, Henrik Smith, receives the Marsh Awards for Ecology by the British Ecological Society. The prize recognizes his long-standing contrib...
7 Oct 2025
Kimberly Nicholas on the Super High-Impact Initiative for Fixing Tomorrow
Kimberly Nicholas, Professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and member of BECC, just launched a new science-based tool that helps individuals identif...
26 Sep 2025
Secondary forests could be a key factor in climate management – if we protect them in time
By analysing over 100,000 field measurements as well as environmental data, an international research team has created maps that show how and when naturally regrowing forests bind ...
11 Sep 2025
More reliable crop forecasts with AI and satellite data
It is now possible to generate earlier and more reliable crop yield forecasts, according to a new doctoral thesis by Xueying Li.