Many of our Fellows (Elisa Savelli, Johanna Mård, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Elena Ridolfi,) contributed to an analysis which was just published in Nature, aimed at better understanding challenges posed by unprecedented #droughts and #floods. The paper's senior author is CNDS Director, Giuliano Di Baldassarre who was one of the coordinators for data collection, study design and analysis. 

CNDS Fellows, Frances Deegan and Valentin Troll, have published an article on the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland, focusing on the diverse mantle components with invariant oxygen isotopes. 

Our Fellow, Elena Raffetti, together with Elena Mondino and Giuliano Di Baldassarre (Uppsala University), has recently published an article on "Epidemic risk perceptions in Italy and Sweden driven by authority responses to COVID-19" in the multidisciplinary Nature journal Scientific reports.

The Borgarfjörður eystri–Loðmundarfjörður area in Eastern Iceland hosts several volcanic centres in a relativelysmall area. CNDS fellow, Steffi Burchardt, together with colleagues,  compiled the first comprehensive geological map of the area and summarise the geology based on more than 40 years of field-work.  

During the spring, the Minister of Education, Anna Ekström will lead a series of research seminars focusing on the government's three priority areas: segregation and crime, climate change and welfare. This Wednesday, the first seminar was organised, in collaboration with Formas. The topic was "A new game plan for the climate" and the speakers were the Minister for Climate and Environment, Annika Strandhäll and Mikael Granberg, professor of political science at Karlstad University and researcher at CNDS, together with five other researchers.

SAGE Publishing and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to understanding environment, climate, security, conflict, and peace linkages. The founding Editor-in-Chief will be our Fellow, Dr. Ashok Swain, professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. 

The paper "A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies" by CNDS Fellows, Sara Lindersson, Johanna Mård and Giuliano Di Baldassarre (UU), together with Luigia Brandimarte has been granted the title of top cited paper in Wires Water. 

A team of CNDS fellows, led by Daniel Nohrstedt (Uppsala university) has recently published a paper called "Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms: Improving the knowledge and practice interface" which is considered to be CNDS manifest, explaining how we can go beyond DRR truisms and better translate knowledge into DRR practice.

CNDS Fellow, Mickael Granberg (Karlstad University) has co-authored an article describing how Swedish multi-level governance and planning have been affected by and reacted upon three simultaneous, ongoing challenges - climate change, migration and the pandemic.

In this paper, CNDS Fellows, Emma Rhodes, Steffi Burchardt, Abigail Barker and Taylor Witcher (Uppsala University), together with co-authors, use field mapping, geochemistry, 3D pluton reconstruction and a thermal model to investigate the assembly and eruptive history of the shallow Reyðarártindur Pluton, southeast Iceland.

CNDS fellow Gabriele Messori will receive a starting grant of 1.5 M euro for his project "Compound Climate Extremes in North America and Europe: from dynamics to predictability".  

This ERC-granted project aims at unravelling the mutual shaping of society and hydrological extremes by explaining the causal mechanisms underlying this interplay, and uncovering the conditions in which the dynamics described above tend to emerge.

CNDS fellow Steffi Burchardt was awarded a research grant by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for her discovery of a paradoxical property in magma: it can fracture even though it flows. Her aim is to understand how fracture formation in magma influences everything from the prediction of volcanic eruptions to deposits of noble metals and the formation of oil reservoirs.