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#ForNature THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT. According to Greta Thunberg, the cost of an industrialized food system is clear–the destruction of our planet. In a new video, sponsored by Mercy For Animals, Greta raises the question, will we take action…
Graph demonstrating how fast mitigation has to happen to keep to 1.5℃. © Robbie Andrew, CC BY Thijs Stoop/Unsplash, FAL James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia, and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund University Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding…
Not only in Brazil, but also in India, Mexico, and the United Kingdom the official COVID-19 death rates are being questioned. Every disaster has its symbols, “for COVID-19, it might just be the refrigerator truck. Beth Mole, Reporter Ars Technica.…
UPSTREAM: Norway aims to challenge Opec for oil market share in IEA’s pathway to net-zero  Zhengzaishuru/Shutterstock Volker Roeben, University of Dundee Established in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) was created to maintain the…
Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru, and their Government are living in an oil-greased arctic Petrokrati fairytale – Norway as the world’s 7. largest exporter of oil and gas has no intention to stop searching…
EidsvÃ¥g with Jordalsvannet in the background. The planned motorway route will be a little further inland than the current motorway. Photo: Tor Sponga BT archive [capture] From original published in Norwegian in Bergens Tidende by Ruben Oddekalv, Leader of Green…
“India has been successful in saving so many lives, we saved the entire humanity from a big tragedy.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his DAVOS speech, January 28. 2021 A man runs past the burning funeral pyres of those who…
– EMBARRASSING: Norway under Erna Solberg no longer has a leadership role for international solidarity. Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide and Minister for Development Aid Dag-Inge Ulstein, and the Norwegian government have so far opposed poor…
 Sam Purkis, University of Miami The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible birdlife rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from any continent. Just…
Shutterstock Kathryn Shine, Curtin University Last week, the ABC announced it had achieved a milestone it had been trying to reach for more than two years. For the first time, in the previous month of March, it had equal numbers…
Do you view energy as an ordinary commodity or an important democratic governed input factor in industrial construction and electrification? “On the production side, we have in recent years seen a large-scale demolition of nature […]. On the consumption side,…
British American Tobacco publishes its new sustainability report and sets out plans to become carbon neutral by 2030. ESG rankings and lists aren’t often entirely reliable for consumers or investors wanting to make decisions on companies they buy from or…
Bergensia now features 240.000 readers and more than 800 articles In 2020 more than 193.000 unique readers from all around the world visited Bergensia. 60% from the USA, followed by the United Kingdom number two (11%), then Canada, Norway (only…
East Aleppo after Syrian forces, backed by Russia and Iran, recaptured the city in 2016. www.shutterstock.com Hanlie Booysen, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Ten years ago this month, Syrians took to the streets to call for political…
Soloviova Liudmyla Melissa Marselle, De Montfort University During the COVID-19 lockdowns, more of us are noticing the variety of animals, trees, and flowers in our back gardens or local park – and how being in contact with nature can influence…
Temporary bike lanes have popped up in cities around the world during the pandemic. Texturemaster/Shutterstock  Christian Brand, University of Oxford Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK.…
An International Atomic Energy Agency investigator examines Reactor Unit 3 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, May 27, 2011. Greg Webb, IAEA/Flickr, CC BY-SA Kiyoshi Kurokawa, University of Tokyo et Najmedin Meshkati, University of Southern California Ten years ago, on…
Predator capitalism is ill-suited to solve the environmental crisis. The disputed area in Time compares to as much land as all of Norway’s land consumption for a year and a half: it extends from Kalberg and all the way around…
Stacey Abrams Knew Another Round of Attacks on Voting Was Coming. Georgia Republicans’ conclusions from 2020: Too many Democrats voted. So their focus is on keeping them from voting, by any means necessary. Republicans will control drawing of 188 House…
Broken / worn windturbine blade, offshore wind, under replacement. Illustration image. The Norwegian Environmental Protection Agency (aka Green Warriors of Norway) sent consultation responses to the environmental deterioration of Bisphenol A to the EU Chemicals Register ECHA/REACH Bisphenol A and…
Norway has perfected the ability to live in two parallel climate worlds by StÃ¥le Holgersen originally first published in Swedish Aftonbladet The Norwegian Petrokrati – a picture for the history books: The press secretaries of both Høyre (Cato Husabø Fossen…
