Logged rainforests may function as a habitat, despite some degradationElildo Alves Ribeiro de Carvalho Jr’s doctorate shows that both legal and illegal harvesting impacts on animals in the Amazon, but that these impacts are generally moderate.
How does upbringing affect your likelihood of developing obesity and cardiovascular disease?New study shows that the parents, aunts and uncles of overweight young adults have a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Is this the result of nature or nurture?
Preventing school segregation in OsloPrimary schools in Oslo are quite highly segregated into social, ethnic and economic categories compared to other European cities. Research & policy join forces to tackle the situation.
PhD course: Extraction EthnographiesExtraction Ethnographies is the result of a collaboration between the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU and the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture …
Call for papers: Workshop on the Economics of TaxationThe next edition of the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation will be held at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona from May 31st to June 1st 2023.
Risk and uncertainties incorporated in the management of root and butt rot infected forest areasIn her PhD thesis, Ana Claudia Ferreira Aza has examined the effect of root and butt rot uncertainty on forest management decisions.
Harvest of change: Using drones and robots to select new plant varietiesSoon plant scientists at NMBU will be able to take a tour of the fields and discover what grew there a couple of years ago, without the need for a time machine or heavy footwear. The only tools needed…
NMBU professor on list of highly cited researchersNMBU’s professor Douglas Sheil features on a new list of Highly Cited Researchers. Sheil is an ecologist with more than twenty years of research experience on tropical forest ecology.
Scientists uncover supergene that causes gender differences in ocean migration in rainbow troutWhat determines whether a fish migrates into the sea or not? Research breakthrough published in Nature Ecology & Evolution provides significant new insights.
Nobel Peace PrizePeacebuilding starts with a seed“It’s important that the Nobel Committee does not contribute to making food a security issue”, says NMBU researcher Ola Westengen about the World Food Program’s Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.
