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13 Feb 2026
Recycling strategies of fungi can affect how forests store carbon
Some fungi are wasteful, while others recycle – and this can determine how much carbon is stored in a forest. Researchers at Lund University have now revealed how fungi manage thei...
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9 Feb 2026
Tiger Teams: tackling sustainability challenges together
Whether you work in a company facing a complex sustainability challenge, manage environmental issues at a municipality, or represent an organisation with a promising sustainable de...
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28 Jan 2026
Announcing Our First-Ever Lighthouse Projects
In 2025 BECC had its first Lighthouse call ever, and 1 January 2026 marks the start of three projects that receives funding: Climate Change Requires Agricultural Change, Unbreaking...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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10 Sep 2025
Exploring New Research Horizons in the Alps
PhD student in Environmental Science, Hanna Ekström, shares her experiences from a study visit to Campus Alpin and the Land Use and Climate Change research group in Garmisch-Parten...
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2 Sep 2025
Thawing permafrost raised carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere vary naturally between ice ages and interglacial periods. A new study by researchers and BECC-members at the University of Gothenburg and Lu...
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14 Aug 2025
Changes in Land Use Leads to Increased Inbreeding in Swedish Butterflies
Changes in land use have been highlighted as one of the main reasons for the global decline of insects. New research from Lund University, which examined three common Swedish grass...
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16 Jul 2025
Job Alert - Research Coordinator with a focus on research grants
Join our team! We are looking for a Research Coordinator with a focus on research grants with appropriate professional experience to support researchers in the application process ...
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12 Jun 2025
Anna Maria Jönsson utsedd till ledamot i Klimatpolitiska rådet
Regeringen har utsett tre nya ledamöter i Klimatpolitiska rådet. En av dem är Anna Maria Jönsson, professor vid institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemanalys vid Lunds univer...
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5 Jun 2025
Nocturnal pollinators just as important as their daytime colleagues
For over 60 years, scientists have tried to determine whether plants are pollinated primarily during the day or at night — without reaching a clear conclusion. Now, a major researc...
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8 May 2025
Major changes in biodiversity in the Arctic
Global warming is causing rapid changes in vegetation in the Arctic. A major study in Nature with researchers from BECC-members at the University of Gothenburg shows large local di...