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
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Salt solution: Cheap power from the river's mouth
Forget barrages, dams or tidal turbines
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State of biodiversity in the Nordic countries
The Nordic countries have agreed on a common target to halt the decline in biodiversity by 2010. This report aims at evaluating the 2010-target by presenting indicators that can describe trends in biodiversity in the Nordic countries. The results comprise the most comprehensive documentation of land use in the Nordic countries to date.
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Money talks
Economic incentives are
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Cave bears killed by Ice Age, not hunters: study
Giant cave bears froze to death during the last Ice Age in Europe about 28,000 years ago, according to a study on Wednesday that cleared human hunters of driving them to extinction thousands of years later.
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Investment funds' dilemma: Environment or profit
Until recently, green investment funds were mostly a niche for individual investors. But now investing with the idea of improving the environmental actions of corporations, not just maximizing profit, is catching on among big pension funds and foundations, particularly in Europe and even in a few outposts in the United States.
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Linking climate change to lemming cycles
The population cycles of rodents at northern latitudes have puzzled people for centuries, and their impact is manifest throughout the alpine ecosystem. Climate change is known to be able to drive animal population dynamics between stable and cyclic phases and has been suggested to cause the recent changes in cyclic dynamics of rodents and their predators.
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Lemmings In Norway Hit By Global Warming Study
Lemming numbers are dwindling in Norway because of climate change, ending a historic cycle of population booms and busts that inspired a myth of mass suicides by the rodents, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Norwegian Firm Gains $479 Mln To Fund UK Wind Farm
Norwegian company Fred. Olsen Renewables has secured 303 million pounds ($479 million) in debt financing for the construction of a new wind farm in Scotland, its adviser said on Wednesday.
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Less ice in Arctic ocean 6000-7000 years ago
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Carbon capture and storage in Norway
Strong economic and political motives, combined with a partly positive and partly silent NGO community have contributed greatly to the present strong commitment towards the use of CCS in Norway.