Environment

What actually is NOx, and is this gas a climate-change sinner? And where does ozone come into the picture? SINTEF- scientist Mario Ditaranto, an expert on combustion, provides all the …

Norway’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1.5 percent last year, lifted by the oil and gas sector and industry, making it harder for Oslo to keep promises of deep cuts …

Norway’s foremost institute for interdisciplinary climate research has launched a new initiative pairing scientists with leading investors to better explain climate risk. The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research …

In Brazil this week it was announced that the moratorium on soy will be extended. This is good news for the Brazilian rainforest, says Vidar Helgesen. During the last ten …

Buff beach boys and bathing beauties be gone! So say new municipal edicts in Norway’s third-largest city, which officially put the kibosh on images of scantily clad models with super …

The United Nations’ top climate change official, Christiana Figueres, welcomed the confirmation today of Norwegian Erik Solheim as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and applauded the …

Norway’s former minister for the environment and international development, Erik Solheim, was appointed on Tuesday to head the UN Environment Programme. Solheim, 61, worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation …