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Anne Kjersti Fahlvik, Executive Director of Innovation at the Research Council of Norway talks to Editor Laura Evans about the importance of supporting young researchers in Norway and collaborations between universities and industry… High-quality research in Norway is viewed as an integral way to meet global challenges and transform the...

Professor Martin Hoelzle from the Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg sheds light in the importance of measuring the increased fever of world’s climate… The cryosphere as a whole system consists of snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice shelves and ice sheets, and frozen ground. The...

The recent announcement “4 pour 1000” by the French Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, communicating a new concept for mitigating climate change through the reduction of CO2 by an annual increase in soil organic carbon in agricultural soils by 0.4%, has demonstrated a new dimension of environmental politics....

Ivar Berthling, Department of Geography, NTNU, Norway There are a number of significant feedbacks and interactions between processes and materials at the earth surface and in the atmosphere. This is a crucial point when considering global warming and climate change effects because such feedbacks might amplify the ongoing warming. One...

At the beginning of 2014 the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) established thirteen Networks in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy. 1 An aim of these networks is to reduce the barriers for initiating collaborations between the academic and business communities, especially in the arena of Industrial Biotechnology....

The Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology and the Institute of Hydrogeology are involved in the teachings of the Bachelor/Master studies of Applied Geosciences and Management of Georessources. Additionally, special classes are given to students of Civil Engineering, Waste Management Engineering, Business Administration and Engineering, Mining Engineering and Applied...

Researchers have discovered that the sea ice surrounding the Antarctic is thicker than previous estimations. Using groundbreaking 3D mapping, scientists analysed an area of ice spanning 500,000 metres squared. In two expeditions led by scientists from the UK, USA, and Australia, the survey discovered that ice thickness averaged between 1.4m and...