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Microalgae are a renewable resource. They absorb CO2 as they grow and reproduce themselves at a rapid pace. It is time to put them to use. 

Klimaendringer, deriblant havforsuring, påvirker mange planter og dyr i sjøen på ulike måter. Fersk forskning tilsier at tare kan nyte fordeler av noen av endringene.

Dei siste tretti åra har konsentrasjonen av kvikksølv auka i torsken i Oslofjorden, jamvel om utsleppa av miljøgifta er reduserte. Samstundes er òg gjennomsnittstorsken forskarane har teke prøvar av frå fjorden vorten større. Er dei auka kvikksølvnivåa rett og slett eit resultat av at torsken har vakse?

REV Ocean and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) coordinate actions against plastic pollution, action for blue forests, and collection of ocean data through marine drones and FerryBox ships of opportunity.

The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) has recently been awarded funding to lead a new EU project that will investigate the interaction between all European regulations that affect governance of Europe’s seas and coasts.

Some may have never heard of the term Cryosphere, though most know where the Earth is covered by ice and snow either seasonally or year-round. Climate change is happening in the Cryosphere faster and more dramatically than anywhere else on earth. The first State of the Cryosphere report, reviewed and supported by nearly 50 leading cryosphere scientists and with over half of them Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) authors, has been released and will come out annually every year until 2030.

Something has happened in the ocean – completely out of view – that destroyed Norway’s kelp forests across an estimated 8400 km2.