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While COVID-induced lockdowns gave the world a three-week relief in 2020, even a pandemic does not stop the resource use in the world in 2021. And what is even worse most post-COVID policies that the world governments have decided upon…
Ten years after the terrorist attacks, it is perceived as difficult to just be allowed to be a completely ordinary Norwegian Muslim, writes Farukh Qureshi. Foto: Javad Parsa / VG Farukh Qureshi, City council representative, Oslo Labor Partyfrom original published in…
77 lives ÂŤEit dikt for dei ungeÂť av @FrodeGrytten #22juli  “A poem for the young” by  @FrodeGrytten #July22  Shoot me in my left arm, and I shall call the woundsolidarityshoot me in my right arm, and I shall call…
Instead of asking how universities might benefit from shifting courses online permanently, we ought to ask how students might suffer from fewer opportunities for lived experience and practice. (Shutterstock) Robert Danisch, University of Waterloo The modern research university was designed…
Battery prices fall by an average of 19% for every doubling of capacity. Even more promising is that this rate of reduction does not yet appear to be slowing down. As if this is not enough: “The worldâs best solar…
NASA Christian Jakob, Monash University and Michael Reeder, Monash University Eight days ago, it rained over the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. There was nothing especially remarkable about this rain event, yet it made big waves twice. First, it disturbed…
Seabed sediments in Bermuda mangroves consumed nitrous oxide from the seawater. Restoring coastal ecosystems might help curb climate change. (Shutterstock) Brett Jameson, University of Victoria In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast…
We must find ways of using and wasting less energy and raw materials Michael (Mike) Joy, Te Herenga Waka â Victoria University of Wellington As countries explore ways of decarbonizing their economies, the mantra of âgreen growthâ risks trapping us…
#ForNature THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT. According to Greta Thunberg, the cost of an industrialized food system is clearâthe 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 1.5â. Š 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…
EidsvĂĽg 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 arenât 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…
