Research news archive
- 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020 - a Horizon Scan 2021-08-18 Top 10 insights in climate science in 2020 selected by 57 leading global researchers.
- Key Insights into Glacial Melting Processes 2020-11-27 New bathymetric and oceanographic data collected by an international team of ocean scientists.
- Gia Destouni receives the Sigge Thernwall’s prize 2020 2020-09-18 Sigge Thernwall’s prize is given to dedicated persons with innovative solutions when bringing their own and others’ research from theory to practical application in society.
- Increased greenhouse gas emissions as a result of abrupt permafrost thaw 2020-02-07 A new research article, including Stockholm University scientists, shows that abrupt permafrost thaw has important consequences for keeping global warming under 1.5 °C.
- The fate of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet 2019-06-18 A new study in Science reconstructs the fate of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet at the end of the last ice age.
- Doctoral thesis by Christos Katrantsiotis 2019-06-18 Holocene environmental changes and climate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean: Multiproxy sediment records from the Peloponnese peninsula, SW Greece
- Doctoral thesis by Lucas Dawson 2019-06-04 Unravelling Sustainability: The complex dynamics of emergent environmental governance and management systems at multiple scales
- Drought hits rivers first and more strongly than agriculture 2018-09-06 A new study by researchers from Germany and Sweden has revealed the development of drought impacts, like in this summer, across Europe
- Regional landscape change linked to local species loss 2018-08-27 6733 historical maps over 1940s-60s Sweden, covering 175 000 km2, have been studied.
- Another clue in the search for the missing ice age carbon 2018-08-06 For the very first time, researchers have estimated the amount of organic carbon stored within the permafrost of the Last Glacial Maximum.
- Doctoral thesis by Anna Plikk 2018-06-19 The Eemian Interglacial at Sokli, northern Finland: A multi-proxy environmental and climatic reconstruction based on a 9 m long lacustrine sediment sequence
- Doctoral thesis by Emelie Waldén 2018-06-15 Restoration of semi-natural grasslands: Impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and stakeholder perceptions
- Doctoral thesis by Andrew Mercer 2018-06-13 Studies in Glacier Mass Balance: Measurement and its errors
- Doctoral thesis by Jessica Lindgren 2017-12-05 Small remnant habitats: Important structures in fragmented landscapes
- Doctoral thesis by Josefin Thorslund 2017-12-04 Hydrological spreading of metal pollution and wetlands as nature-based solutions
- Doctoral thesis by Sandra Raúl Sitoe 2017-11-23 Environmental history in southern Mozambique: Reconstruction of flooding events, hydroclimate and sea-level dynamics since mid-Holocene
- New research project with Ninis Rosqvist 2017-11-07 A snow quality assessment tool based on new techniques and Sámi knowledge (Snow4All).
- Simulate the abrupt transition from green Sahara to a desert Sahara 2017-11-07 This project with Qiong Zhang is a collaboration with Lund University ecosystem modelling group.
- Georgia Destouni visited the Embassy of Sweden in Washington 2017-10-30 Sustainable Development - From Local Choices to Global Impacts
- If you want to do something about global warming, look under your feet 2017-10-12 Managed well, soil’s ability to trap carbon dioxide is potentially much greater than previously estimated, according to Stanford researchers who claim the resource could “significantly” offset increasing global emissions.
- New article in Ecology Letters 2017-08-31 Optimal metabolic regulation along resource stoichiometry gradients
- Geography ranked as best subject at Stockholm University in latest QS ranking 2017-06-15 The 2018 edition of QS World University Ranking, one of the most prestigious ranking lists in the world of higher education, was presented on the 8th of June.
- New research funding from Formas 2017-02-23 Formas supports the Swedish part of the EU/Water JPI - LEAP-projektet with 3 814 965 SEK.
- New research funding for Steve Lyon 2017-02-03 1 170 000 SEK to Steve Lyon from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Modernizing Nepal’s Groundwater Resources"
- Scaling up Soil Carbon Dynamics 2016-11-18 Scaling up soil carbon dynamics from microbial cells to ecosystems for next-generation Earth System models.
- Water Management in Rice Systems 2016-11-18 Quantifying the trade-offs between ecosystem service provision and water management in rice systems.
- New partnership agreement with the Eden Reforestation Projects an NGO 2016-11-18 The Eden Projects works with poverty reduction and the restoration of important forest habitats in Madagascar.
- Climate change is studied from a wide perspective 2016-10-07 What happens to water and soil conditions, ecology and biodiversity when the temperature rises? And how are species of plants and animals affected? Researchers at the interdisciplinary research programme Ekoklim at Stockholm University are looking for answers to these questions.
