Gudrun Sylte

Tore Furevik, director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was on the programme of the University of Bergens conference on the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Knowledge of Our Common Future. Here is an extended version of his talk.

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding, climate scientist Noel Keenlyside and Ernst Nordtveit at the Faculty of Law receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway.

Climate scientist Jerry Tjiputra at Uni Research aims to develop a new method to disentangle and predict future climate change in enormous amounts of data.

The Global Carbon Budget 2017 is out today, showing a continuing low growth trend from 2014 and 2015.

On Fridtjof Nansen's birthday, Elin Darelius was awarded by the Fram committee for her polar science, shared with Jan Inge Faleide at UiO. 

"When you see a black cloud coming your way fast, you will start looking for shelter. The reason is of course that your brain tells you that there’s an outsized chance of rain", Erik W. Kolstad writes.