Press releases

Geoffrey Daniel, Lotta Berg and Jonas Hentati Sundberg to receive Medals for Distinguished Service

Each year, SLU awards three Medals for Distinguished Service. The first medals were awarded in 2010 following a decision taken by the SLU Board in April 2009. The recipients for 2023 are Professor

High methane emissions from northern rivers and streams

Freshwaters account for half of global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. But among freshwaters, the role of rivers and streams in the methane cycle has

Från tidigare vårar till vilda fluktuationer i Arktis

In 2007 researchers at Zackenberg in high-arctic Greenland reported some of the fastest rates of spring advancement ever observed on the globe. After some 15 years, these researchers now revisit the

SLU invests in sustainable fish farming with support from the Kamprad Family Foundation

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, has been granted a funding of 23 million SEK over five years from the Kamprad Family Foundation for the development of sustainable fish farming

Promising breakthrough: A novel treatment for osteoarthritis in horses, and potentially humans

For the first time, an intervention that seems to slow down osteoarthritis (OA) progression has been presented. In a clinical study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the

Visit by EU ministers

Under a clear blue sky, SLU received 150 guests at Lövsta agricultural research consisting of the EU's agriculture and fisheries ministers and the Special Agricultural Committee (SJK). SLU's

THE Impact rank 2023 en

SLU is climbing in rankings, making the top 201–300 of the 1,591 higher education institutions evaluated in The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023. For goal 2, Zero Hunger, SLU is ranked

Meat: the Four Futures

Are our choices in the grocery store based on facts, values, habits, or simply a gut feeling of what feels right? TABLE, a platform run by three European universities, is now launching a podcast that

New book on farming and conservation of the noble crayfish

Now it's here! A new book on noble crayfish farming has been published by SLU. The book is requested by farmers, authorities and the public and is needed in the work to preserve the increasingly

Tough times for brown trout in a warmer world

Climate has large effects on the distribution of organisms, and species that thrive in cold water, like the brown trout, may face local population extinctions at lower latitudes when the water

SLU's breeding of perennial barley receives major support from Innovation Fund Denmark

For five years, researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala have been working to domesticate and breed the plant Hordeum bulbosum into a new perennial and climate-smart

Beneficial fungi can protect coffee plantations against serious plant disease

Coffee wilt disease cause great harvest losses in Ethiopia. Now, researchers from SLU and Ethiopia have developed, formulated and evaluated a range of biofungicides against the disease in the lab, in