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Pierre Rampal gets funding for a new project developing a new forecast system providing key information on ice edge location, wave heights and floe sizes to operators in the Arctic Ocean.

Many congratulations to Hilary Birks, whom has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Geologist Nele Meckler works on reconstruction of past climate conditions. She has now received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council to build her own research group at the University of Bergen.

The Tracks-project are showing off a new way of reporting from their kick-off workshop  

Richard Davy has been awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award in Atmospheric Science by the European Geophysical Union.

Frode Ims at the UiB Division of Communication joined the PhD summer School in Greenland this year. Check out the result here

The melting Arctic is not the source for less saline Nordic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream that has provided less salt.

A team of scientists from Norway, France and China revise the view that the Sahara desert has existed for only the last 2 to 3 million years.

Close to 140,000 Europeans have died as a direct result of heat waves since the turn of the millennium. Heat waves are now regarded by the United Nations as climate-related disaster.