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While the Bjerknes Centre traditionally has had its main research concentration in the northern regions, the research area also is now expanding to Asia. BCCR has collaboration with institutions in Bangladesh, India, China and Thailand.

Model study reveals that future large and episodic volcanic eruptions induce favourable climate condition for more land and oceanic carbon uptake and delay climate change effect.

A new article in Nature Geoscience revises our current understanding of how the dense overflow waters from the Nordic seas are formed.

More than 40 people gathered Thursday last week in GFI´s East Wing Auditorium to mark the launch of the seven proposed research activities in the Centre for Climate Dynamics.

The world oceans uptake of CO2 will decrease in our century under global warming, but there are big regional differences.

Past environmental conditions can be inferred from fossil pollen and other microfossil assemblages. A new study allows these reconstructions, which provide important evidence for interpreting past climatic conditions, to be assessed statistically.

The Bjerknes Centre celebrates its 10-year anniversary as a national Centre of Excellence by organising the international, open science conference "Climate Change in High Latitudes".

In two new animations the Bjerknes Centre goes new ways to communicate about past and future climates.

2010 has in many ways been a year in transition for the Bjerknes Centre, writes the Centre’s diretor Eystein Jansen in the fresh Annual Report for 2010.

An expansive megadrought that parched ancient Africa and southern Asia about 16,000 years ago was one of the most intense and far-reaching dry periods in the history of modern humans.