How planes are making the skies brighter: Contrails thicken clouds so they reflect more radiation
A news feature about the study by Kevin Noone and UK colleagues on contrails and their effect on adjacent clouds.
Svenska universitet högt på ny världsranking
News feature about Stockholm University coming 5th in the world in environmental science and engineering according to Shanghai Ranking.
A “Matthew Effect” in the research agenda
Article features paper by Anna Sobek, Christina Rudén, Sofia Bejgharn and Magnus Breitholtz about scientists engaged in environmental monitoring that tend to look for legacy pollutants such as dioxins and PCBs, and have left 98% of REACH-registered chemicals uninvestigated.
Enkelt att mäta gifter på båtskrov
A new method to detect toxic chemicals in anti-fouling paints that was developed by Britta Eklund and her team was featured in Havsutsikt.
Too many studies on legacy pollutants, say Swedish scientists
A news features based on a published study by Anna Sobek, Sofia Bejgarn, Magnus Breitholtz and Christina Ruden in Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts.
Vetenskapens värld
The study by Örjan Gustafsson, Lisa Bröder and August Andersson among others about the severe acidification of the Arctic Ocean via permafrost thawing was featured on last night’s episode of Vetenskaps Värld (The World of Science) by Swedish Television. The report is in Swedish and begins at 1.00.
Known Unknowns
Robin Vestegren was a guest on H2O Radio in Denver, USA, and discussed the use of perfluorinated substances in consumer products Photo: Chemical Collection by Steve Bernacki (creative commons)
Havsvattnet försuras i snabb takt
News article about the research of Örjan Gustafsson and his team and colleagues on the severe acidification of the Arctic Ocean due to permafrost thawing.
Surare hav hotar skaldjur i Arktis
Article published on Swedish Television’s homepage (in Swedish) about a new study by researchers at ACES and colleagues published in Nature Geoscience on 18 April 2016.
China’s struggle against smog
Professor Christer Johansson was interviewed for Klotet on Swedish Radio about China’s pollution problem (from 15’50”). The interview is in Swedish.
Cuts in Europe’s air pollution have boosted Arctic warming by 0.5C
A paper in Nature Geoscience co-authored by Juan Acosta Navarro, Ilona Riipinen and Hans-Christen Hanssen was featured in Carbon Brief in March 2016.
How cleaner air could actually make global warming worse
A paper in Nature Geoscience co-authored by Juan Acosta Navarro, Ilona Riipinen and Hans-Christen Hanssen was featured in The Washington post in March 2016.