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  • Using AI and math can prepare for new infections in changing climate

    It is possible to forecast how different infectious diseases will spread across Europe in relation to global warming. This is made by using artificial intelligence and mathematical modelling of changing travel patterns and disease effects. In this way, it will be possible to take countermeasures and build up preparedness. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis at Umeå University, Sweden.

  • Photo: Ive van Krunkelsven

    Arctic research grows and strengthens international cooperation

    A new report by UArctic highlights the growing diversity and number of research activities across the Arctic. UArctic is a collaboration between academic institutions and other organizations with an interest in northern regions. The report demonstrates a high degree of international cooperation and presents Arctic research trends.

  • Conifer needles consume oxygen in early spring even during the day, new research shows. Image: Stefan Jansson

    Conifer needles consume oxygen when times are hard

    Plants give us oxygen through photosynthesis - this is commonly taught in school. An international research team have now shown that particularly in early spring when low temperatures coincide with high light, conifer needles consume – not produce – oxygen by using an ancient mechanism. The results were published in Nature Communications.

  • Groundwaters that circulate through the subsoil as a result of melting permafrost can transport carbon dioxide and methane to arctic lakes and in turn be emitted to the atmosphere.

    Melting permafrost increases greenhouse gas from arctic lakes

    Groundwaters that circulate through the subsoil as a result of melting permafrost can transport carbon dioxide and methane to arctic lakes and in turn be emitted to the atmosphere. This process of transporting greenhouse gases increases the effects of climate change and is now being quantified for the first time by researchers from the universities in Umeå, Barcelona, and Linköping.

  • Lakes at high latitudes act as “reactors” or “chimneys” for carbon dioxide emission, Dirk Verheijen shows in his thesis defended at Umeå University, Sweden. Photo: Karl Heuchel

    Arctic lakes act as “reactors” or “chimneys” for carbon dioxide

    Many lakes are found at high-latitudes in arctic areas. Yet, their remote location and long winter periods make studying these systems difficult. This period of ice-cover and subsequent ice-melt is of significant importance for understanding CO2 emission from arctic clear water systems, Dirk Verheijen shows in his thesis at Umeå University, Sweden.

  • Joakim Ahlgren, Jenny Ask, Martina Jeuthe och Robin Bergman at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre at Umeå University are now licensed as scientific divers. Photo: Stilianos Matsoukatidis

    Monitoring staff with a license to dive

    Now Umeå University can proudly present four employees who have obtained the Swedish professional diving certificate S-30. On behalf of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, macrovegetation in the Gulf of Bothnia will be monitored within the national environmental monitoring.

  • Associate professor Per Stenberg receives a grant of nearly 16 million SEK for research on the role of forests in climate change. Photo: Edvin Karlsson

    Millions to research on the role of forests in climate change

    Associate professor Per Stenberg at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Umeå University, Sweden, is awarded a grant of almost 16 million SEK from Formas’ announcement The role of the Swedish forest in climate change. A total of nine projects were approved.

  • Framlab, Glasir urban farming project, 2018–ongoing

    Opening at Bildmuseet: Architectures of Transition

    An upcoming exhibition brings together Nordic architects and projects that, in various ways, reveal a shift in contemporary architecture. Architectures of Transition opens at Bildmuseet, Sweden, on Saturday, June 19. Welcome to join a digital press preview on Thursday, June 17 at 10am and to experience the exhibition on-site from 11am the same day (RSVP).

  • Swedish parliament.  Photo: Melker Dahlstrand

    Political distrust a major barrier to climate action

    Distrust in politicians and the political system is preventing people from supporting increased taxes on fossil fuels, a potentially important climate policy. By comparison, most people believe in climate change. So says a new study based on surveys in 23 European countries.

  • River system in western Sibiria. Photo: Egor Istigechev

    Greenhouse emissions from Siberian rivers peak as permafrost thaws

    Permafrost soils store large quantities of frozen carbon and play an important role in regulating Earth’s climate. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, researchers from Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with an international team, now show that river greenhouse gas emissions rise high in areas where Siberian permafrost is actively thawing.

  • Apocalyptic framing enable a discussion of Global Climate Change

    Apocalyptic framing enable a discussion of Global Climate Change

    Man made emissions of climate threatening greenhouse gases are changing our living conditions around the globe. Martin Hultman, Technology and Environmental Historian, Umeå University and Jonas Anshelm researcher at the Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, are the author’s behind a new book: Discourses of Global Climate Change.

  • Apocalyptic framing enable a discussion of Global Climate Change

    Apocalyptic framing enable a discussion of Global Climate Change

    Man made emissions of climate threatening greenhouse gases are changing our living conditions around the globe. Martin Hultman, Technology and Environmental Historian, Umeå University and Jonas Anshelm researcher at the Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, are the author’s behind a new book: Discourses of Global Climate Change.