New research shows a clear link between different cloud types and the transpiration in European forests. An international team of researchers has estimated how changes in cloudiness affect the amount of moisture released by trees into the atmosphere – something that also influences Earth’s water cycle.
Clouds above the Pacific, soot drifting from agricultural fires, polluted sea spray rising from warming oceans. At this year’s Crafoord Prize Symposium in Geosciences in Stockholm, leading climate researchers gathered to explore one of the defining scientific questions of our time: how aerosols, clouds and other climate pollutants are reshaping Earth’s energy balance, and what that means for societies around the world.
The Swedish Research Council has decided which higher education institutions will receive funding within the call for Grants to recruit international guest researchers to Sweden 2026. One grant goes to Stockholm University, to recruit Jessie Creamean from the USA.
The scientific journal Tellus has been relaunched as a unified, independent, and scientist-led platform for Earth system science. The first set of publications reflects this renewed scope, bringing together research that advances understanding of the processes and interactions shaping the Earth system in a changing climate. With an expanded editorial structure and broader scientific scope, Tellus aims to publish high-quality, interdisciplinary research across the atmosphere, oceans, land, cryosphere, and biosphere—fields that are increasingly interconnected in the study of global environmental change.
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Climate models may be underestimating key properties of black carbon, a component of soot, including how strongly it absorbs sunlight and how it is removed from the atmosphere, according to a new global review published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
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Shallow Baltic Sea bays are significant but highly variable sources of greenhouse gases. This is shown in a new study conducted by a large group of researchers from CoastClim and the Thriving Bays projects.
The societal climate transition requires integrated knowledge from several disciplines. Karin Bäckstrand wants to create a research environment with inter-disciplinary expertise from Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet and KTH – and the Swedish Research Council is proposing funding.
The first publication from the relaunched Tellus journal is now available. The editorial outlines the journal’s scope and direction as a platform for interdisciplinary Earth system science.
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The Swedish Research Council has decided to recommend that the Government award funding to Stockholm University in four strategic research areas: polar research, climate-related research, quantum technologies, and health, life sciences, and artificial intelligence.
There is a pressing need for more accurate climate models to be able to predict future climate change. Ilona Riipinen is taking a new step toward refining climate models based on observations and experiments from recent decades.
A new Policy Forum paper in Science calls for a step change in how the world monitors methane – a greenhouse gas that plays a critical role in near-term climate warming. Led by researchers at Woodwell Climate Center and co-authored by Gustaf Hugelius, co-director of the Bolin Centre, the paper highlights a key blind spot in current climate efforts: natural methane emissions are both substantial and poorly tracked.
This course introduces PhD students to the principles and practical tools of "Open and reproducible science".
