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High levels of pollutants in polar bears from the Barents Sea – what are the reasons behind?

Norwegian beans can replace foreign soy

Building larger and better roads results in more traffic, not fewer traffic jams

Women’s travel behaviour make cities greener

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Using drones to accurately map life under water

Here’s what politicians can do to make our consumption more environmentally friendly

Never before has so much rain been recorded in January in Norway

Government wants Norway’s universities to compete to be best on environment and climate issues

Very little money is actually spent on climate research

Most Norwegians think they have a responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Shorter winters and much less snow in 30 years

The long, harsh Fimbul winter is not a myth

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Picking frost flowers in the Polar night

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Hot topics from the cold

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Care for you core!

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Do the animals at the bottom of the ocean know it’s dark season?

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In the Arctic Ocean and on the shoulders of giants

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Blowing in the Arctic wind

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Unique Challenges at the start of an Arctic winter Expedition

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Hard disks full of data despite ice, darkness and freezing temperatures

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Where are we?

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The heat

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Night watch

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Tales from the deep

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What IS this mooring business?

What’s the best way to recycle clothes?

Wasting water in Norway has consequences for the environment

Vikings wiped out Iceland’s walruses

You can combat long-tailed silverfish efficiently and safely, it turns out

Trout may be dining on lots of lemmings

Return of Scandinavian wolves means fewer moose

Norwegian universities tackle their carbon footprints from travel

A climate policy that oil companies can support

Half of Norwegian red foxes eat rat poison

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How studies of Norwegian fjord ice can help create a safer future for the arctic

Exhaust gas is to blame: Ground-level ozone is damaging crops

Fighting the insect apocalypse with hotels, flowers and dead trees

Here’s what a warmer world will look like in Norway

Humans have always caused plant and animal extinctions

Why is so little plastic actually recycled?

Norwegians won’t stop flying, even though they know it’s bad for the planet

Sewage detectives scour wastewater for drugs

Statistics yield better results from climate models

Cheaper, more efficient biofuel production from trees

How knowledge can reduce ocean waste

Conservative seabirds in a squeeze

Norway's mountain landscape has changed dramatically

The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble

The valley at the end of the world – and the magical mysteries we found there

Speedy production of silicon for solar cells

Tundra shrubs can speed warming

Here comes the electric fishing boat

What’s a moose to eat?

Spring is arriving earlier

Fjords catch loads of carbon

Scientists spread dubious number on debris in seas

Arctic fox feed at night to avoid snowmobile traffic

Can Oslo grow both fast and green?

Twelve things that can protect you from polluted urban air

Four-day forecasts of air pollution

OPINION: The Christmas tree's carbon footprint

Exotic travellers are planet warmers

Detailed wave warnings on Norwegian coast

Geoengineers can only give us a breather

Complicated climate communication

EU cites Norway for air poor quality

Aerosols are wild cards in climate models

Measuring snowfall in windy mountain areas

More heavy rains in the future

Changing climate can change building standards

Unstable Atlantic can accelerate climate change

How archaeology helps wild reindeer

Should India invest in Arctic oil?

Wood fuels far less climate friendly than assumed

Warmer in Southern Europe, wetter in the North

Ocean acidification puts Norway in a pickle

Norway funds four green longshots

Enduring climate crisis by gene doubling

The well-heeled leave biggest carbon footprint

Wet tundra can also capture carbon

Dream houses without emissions

Greenland meltdown could slow down

Arctic waters growing alarmingly acidic

Living the green dream -- a zero emissions city district

Motivating those who are almost cyclists

Norwegian invention can decrease CO2 emissions

Ivory gulls threatened by eggshell thinning

Bright future for solar energy in the north

Winter rains threaten reindeer and voles

Adapting rice cultivation to climate changes

Harvesting energy from all forms of sunlight

Use nature while protecting it

The passive housing revolution

Trapping carbon with iron

Troubled waters text for help

Forests get only minor boost from climate change

Back to the unnatural

Making fungus come out of the woodwork

Sperm evolution in songbirds

Windpower? Oh, my deer!

A Klondike cold rush

CO2 is confusing fish

CO2 map provides quality control for climate research

Detecting oil spills with satellite

Effects of climate change on the spruce bark beetle

Natural disasters ease conflicts

Bright spots in the environmental gloom

Quota system for preventing whaling

Environmental brutes of the past

Pictures from Amundsen’s South Pole adventures