How conscience enables companies to realise their sustainability strategies SHARE YOUR SCIENCE: Companies lack expertise on sustainability, fail to prioritise climate change and lack the commitment to drive environmental and social commitments into the core of the business. Why?
Satellite imaging can provide more climate-friendly actions OPINION: Climate change affects local areas differently on a global scale. We need to find climate-friendly solutions when dealing with the specific challenges unique for each location. By the the use of satellite imaging we can target and identify the problems more efficiently.
Feeding the future’s farmed salmon One of the biggest critiques of farmed salmon is that their feed is made from raw materials that could be eaten by humans. Norwegian scientists are working to make fish food from trees and leftovers from the food industry.
What happens to flowers and birds when we massacre mosquitoes with modern traps? It’s only recently that people have thought that eradicating mosquitoes might be a bad thing, a mosquito researcher says.
Making cycling safer for cyclists and drivers Bicyclists, especially those who commute to work, are neither fish nor fowl: they can ride on the sidewalk, or ride in the road and take their chances with cars. How safely they ride is partly linked to how their peers see safety.
Scientists spread dubious number on debris in seas Researchers have often said that ten percent of all the plastic manufactured ends up in the oceans. Where did they get that number?
No more recycling blues Many Norwegians help recycle by placing all their household plastic refuse in special blue plastic bags they get for free from their municipalities. In Romerike, a district on the outskirts of Oslo, smart new machines are making this individual effort obsolete.
Norwegian woods triple since WW2 Norway now has three times as much forest as it did before World War Two. The volume of growth this year will be the equivalent of nearly 100 sacks of firewood per Norwegian.
Fish in drug-tainted water see some benefits Swedish freshwater perch have been seen to thrive in water contaminated by anti-anxiety medications. Researchers think most studies, which look solely at the negative aspects of pharmaceutical pollution, could be missing some perks for perch.
Complicated climate communication Impact scenarios of climate change on Norwegian ecosystems are indefinite and convoluted, making dissemination to the general public difficult. How can scientists express themselves clearly and precisely?
Not cycling – even if the boss were to pay Employers cannot expect much success with initiatives to get staff to ride bicycles to work. But better and safer roads might do the trick.