The Circularity Gap Report Norway
<p>The Circularity Gap Report Norway is an in-depth analysis of how Norway consumes raw materials—metals, fossil fuels, biomass and minerals—to fuel its societal needs. Currently, 97.6% of
Norway
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EU To Block Mackerel From Icelandic Fishing Boats
The European Union has decided to block Icelandic fishing vessels carrying mackerel from landing at its ports in an escalation of a dispute over fishing quotas. The European Commission, the executive of the 27-member EU, formally notified the European Economic Area of plans for the ban, the final step before enforcing it. "We have informed the EEA joint committee that we will implement the l
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Climate A Factor In Rome's Rise And Fall: Study
Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of global warming in the 21st century. Good growth by oak and pine trees in central Europe in the past 2,500 years signaled warm and wet summers and coincided with periods of wealth among farming societies, for instance around the height o
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Emotional and legal stakes are high in the seals dispute
The emerging dispute on the European Union
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Space odyssey: Rephrasing conflicts over large carnivore conservation
Large carnivore conservation is akin to a multi-billion dollar riddle. Scores of researchers, activists, bureaucrats, politicians, livestock herders, and hunters each hold a clue to the solution, but cannot
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Mind the moose: Tales of conflict from the Land of the Midnight Sun
A hundred years ago, humans almost exterminated all large mammals in Norway. Government protection has since ensured the overwhelming return of species, only to result in a newer problem: CONFLICT.
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Can we solve human-wildlife conflict?
Based on our studies in Norway and India, and the rapidly expanding scientific literature in this field, it is safe to say that human-wildlife conflicts are a universal state of affairs. This is a serious
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Norway offers ONGC a bite of $1-bn carbon project
The Norwegian government has offered Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) a stake in a $1-billion carbon capture storage project at Statoil
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880 MW Tamakoshi-III to kickstart in 2012
After successfully constructing and operating Khimti, the country
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Climate wars
As the planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought will uproot millions of people, and with dire wider consequences. Barack Obama, collecting his Nobel peace prize, said that climate change
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Modeling future acidification and fish populations in Norwegian surface waters
Despite great progress made in the past 25 years, acid deposition continues to cause widespread damage to the environment in Europe and eastern North America. Legislation to limit emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds in Europe is now under revision. The most recent protocol was based in part on the critical loads concept.