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SLU is a leading international university providing research, education and environmental assessment within the sciences for sustainable life. We bring people together who have different perspectives, but they all have a common goal: creating the best conditions for a sustainable, thriving and better world.

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News

  • 2025-07-01

    Moose in Decline in Europe Despite Iconic Status

    The iconic status of the moose offers no guarantee or prosperity. While the population of greatest ungulate around the globe is stable in North America the moose population is decreasing in Europe.
  • 2025-07-01

    A day of high-tech and agriculture at SLU

    On June 12, 2025, a symposium about digital agriculture and forestry was held at SLU. Around 140 researchers, students, professionals and decision-makers gathered to share groundbreaking technological developments, through lectures, posters and field demonstrations.
  • 2025-06-27

    SLU improves global sustainability ranking among higher education institutions

    SLU is climbing in rankings, making the top 101–200 of the 2,526 higher education institutions evaluated in The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025. This ranking focuses on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. For goal 13, Climate Action, SLU is ranked 3rd.

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  • Prevalence of orthopedic diagnoses in insured Swedish warmblood riding horses

    Lameness is by far the most common health problem in Swedish warmblooded riding horses (SWB). Researchers at SLU have investigated the proportion of orthopedic problems in different groups of the SWB population, including differences between jumping and dressage horses, conducted for the first time.
  • Wind damages expected to increase in a warmer climate

    In spite of elks, spruce beetles and pathogenic fungi, wind is probably the largest cause of economic loss for European forestry. A number of reports in recent years investigates how the risk of wind damage can be expected to develop during the rest of the century,
  • Cronartium pini in Sweden - an overview

    Cronartium pini is a very serious fungal disease that attacks pine trees throughout Sweden, with particularly extensive outbreaks in the north. It causes millions of Swedish kronor worth of damage to forestry each year.

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