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Oceans slow down global warming but at the cost of “their health”. The oceans...

Chemistry, Sea, Society

Ocean Acidification – the evil twin of global warming

Author Maribel I. García-Ibáñez Date December 19, 2017

Maribel I. García-Ibáñez

Have you ever thought about what you would talk about in a conversation with...

Air, Climate, Earth

Meteorology is out of this world! – Extra-terrestrial meteorology

Author Andrew Seidl Date October 17, 2017

Andrew Seidl

If children from different countries and cultures want to exchange ideas about weather and...

Climate, Culture, Outreach, People, Uncategorized

The art of exchanging weather stories

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date October 4, 2017

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

A good cake can be unforgettable and can lead to massive cravings. In the...

Climate, Earth

How to unbake a cake or reverse an irreversible process in science

Author Vivi Pedersen Date June 7, 2017

Vivi Pedersen

Locals observe large differences in precipitation on short distances, and people have done for...

Air, Climate, Earth, People, Systems, Uncategorized

Terrain and climate models

Author Marie Pontoppidan Date April 24, 2017

Marie Pontoppidan

What does proxy mean? For a native English speaker, it might be a...

Climate, Outreach, People, Society

Keeping a Norwegian scientific language alive – for scientists and the public

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date March 16, 2017

Ingjald Pilskog

Use Twitter to communicate your research! Use social media to explain your latest results!...

Climate, Outreach, People, Society

Twitter for learning in research

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date February 8, 2017

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

When I get old, I want to be a skiing grandma. For that dream...

Climate, Earth, Society

Future skiing conditions in Norway: Will I be a skiing grandma?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date December 21, 2016

Kristine Flacké Haualand

How can such landscapes not change the local climate.

Earth system models are best tools we have to study the climate and how...

Climate, Society

Politics: the forgotten climate driver

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date December 16, 2016

Ingjald Pilskog

Imagine surfing a wave that is several kilometers long. Waves like this actually exist....

Air, Climate, People, Sea

Surfing atmospheric waves – the Morning Glory phenomenon

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 13, 2016

Kristine Flacké Haualand

Early last week, climate PhD students from the Nordic countries met in Upsete, deep in...

News

Debating social media in the Norwegian mountains.

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 30, 2016

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

Weather and climate shape cultures and the lives of people everywhere. People have been...

Climate, Society, Systems

Climate detectives: What a Historical Climatologist does

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 21, 2016

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

Shrub encroachment is threatening the livelihoods of billions of people world-wide. This is the...

Biology, Climate, Land

Shrub encroachment – time to demystify a global threat

Author Gregor Ratzmann Date June 14, 2016

Gregor Ratzmann

For about 75 years, many brilliant minds all over the world have struggled to...

Climate, Earth, Life, People, Physics, Sea, Systems

The Century Problem – An Unsolved Puzzle in Meteorology

Author Lucas Höppler Date May 27, 2016

Lucas Höppler

When I was at school I loved science but I hated having to learn...

Climate, Earth, Land

Standing on the shoulders of giants: why old science still matters

Author Jan Schuurman Date May 19, 2016

Jan Schuurman

Climate, Outreach, Systems

Spinning up the past, present and future climate

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date May 18, 2016

Ingjald Pilskog

Why should we study glaciers that no longer exist? And why should we examine...

Climate, Earth, Ice, Land

Why Mud Matters

Author Rachel Devine Date May 18, 2016

Rachel Devine

More than 70% of our planet is covered by water but we still know...

Biology, Climate

Do the oceans hide the key to eternal life?

Author Sofia Paraskevopoulou Date May 13, 2016

Sofia Paraskevopoulou

The Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano, lying dormant for two hundred years, profusely puffed like...

Climate, Earth, Ice, Sea

Why the climate geeks need the volcano geeks.

Author Ashley Braunthal Date May 11, 2016

Ashley Braunthal

There are 33 million people in Kenya and this number is increasing every year....

Climate, Systems

Can conservation agriculture solve the food security crisis in Kenya?

Author Dorcas Kalele Date May 10, 2016

Dorcas Kalele