2025-06-16

Department of Environmental Science

The power behind big data: high-performance computing in environmental toxicogenomics

What happens when cutting-edge biology meets powerful computing? At the Department of Environmental Science, researchers are harnessing the power of high-performance computing (HPC) to investigate how pollution leaves its mark—not only on individuals, but on future generations.

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2025-06-16

Department of Meteorology

Investigation of deep water currents in the North Atlantic, to see how they affect the climate

Léon Chafik, Stockholm University, and Fabien Roquet, Gothenburg University, will investigate deep water currents in the North Atlantic on 2–16 July 2025. During the expedition they will make measurements in two important sea passages: the Faroe-Shetland Channel and the ridge between the Faroe Islands and Iceland.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page

2025-06-11

Department of Environmental Science

Scientists defend widely used definition of PFASs

In a new paper published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand from the Department of Environmental Science—defend the current definition of PFASs established by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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2025-06-10

Department of Meteorology

Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades. New publication by MISU

Global warming stems from the difference between incoming solar and outgoing reflected and infrared radiation, causing energy buildup and climate impacts like rising temperatures and sea levels. In 2023, this imbalance reached a new record high, twice that of the IPCC best estimate. Improved understanding and monitoring are urgently needed.

Atmosphere and Weather - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page Oceans and Lakes - Theme page

2025-06-05

Department of Environmental Science

UTOPIA in code: charting the fate of our plastic world

In a quiet seminar room at the Department of Environmental Science, two researchers sit across from a laptop, ready to simulate the afterlife of a plastic bag that escaped into the environment—blown away from a picnic on the beach for example. How long does it stay there? What does it become? And what damage might it do in the meantime?

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2025-05-28

Department of Environmental Science

Researchers call on EU to strengthen protection against chemical mixtures in REACH revision

A group of leading scientists from across Europe, including researchers from the Department of Environmental Science, have jointly sent an open letter to the European Commission urging stronger regulatory measures against chemical mixtures in the upcoming revision of REACH—the EU’s main regulation for chemicals.

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