16. February 2022 By using a more than 100-year-old record of a puffin Fratercula arctica chick harvest on Iceland, researchers have found a relationship between ocean temperatures and production of puffin chicks.
26. January 2022 How do seabirds find enough food to survive the darkness of winter? In a study on colonies in Great Britain, Iceland and Norway, researchers used geolocators to reveal that European shags adopt various strategies to handle the winter darkness.
25. January 2022 In response to a warming climate, many species are shifting their range norhtwards. Protected areas play an important role in helping bird species to adjust - if the sites follow a clear management plan.
12. December 2021 Hydro-, wind- and solar power are key to green energy production, but future planning needs a better understanding of the tradeoffs among different options.
13. October 2021 The advantages for animals migrating to northern breeding grounds are being eroded, as the animals experience lower food availability, higher pathogen pressure and increased predation rates.
15. September 2021 The release of Norwegian white-tailed sea eagle fledglings this summer marks a milestone in the restoration of the species in Europe.
6. September 2021
More than 38 500 species are threatened with extinction globally. A new tool can help reverse this trend.
6. July 2021 A wild idea can be the solution to get fish past power plants.
16. June 2021 The NorthWind research centre on wind energy launched its activities today with its first General Assembly.
4. June 2021 130 years of catch data show that global warming is contributing to population decline in the world's largest puffin colony.
27. May 2021 Changes in seabird breeding productivity reflect hemispheric differences in ocean warming and human use, and call out the need for policies that reduce the impacts of climate change on the world’s marine ecosystems.
21. May 2021 Researchers seek to use turbulent eddies in the river to safely guide salmon and eels past hydropower plants.
20. April 2021 This year, a major campaign is being launched in northwest Russia aimed at preventing the spread of alien species to Russian parts of the Arctic. Scientists fear that seeds, insects and parasites will establish themselves in the vulnerable northern regions, and ask travelers to take action.
13. April 2021 Scientists have developed a new method to map and monitor alien species in the polar regions.
9. April 2021 This study signals the need for fisheries management to account for ecosystem constraints when setting catch limits in periods of low forage fish biomass.
26. March 2021 Reduced availability of key prey forces adult puffins to fly further from their colonies to find food. Meanwhile, their chicks starve at the nests.
18. March 2021 The Scandinavian and Finnish brown bear populations are among the largest in Europe but were until recently separated. A new study by Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish researchers demonstrates that connectivity has been restored with decent exchange of individuals and genes between countries.
15. March 2021 For more than 20 years researchers have used DNA to gain more knowledge on large carnivores in Norway.
9. February 2021 Using data from five different marine ecosystems, researchers have tested the hypothesis of predator‐pit dynamics for forage fish. By examining the consumption of fish by seabirds and the effect of such predation on fish population dynamics, they found that seabird-induced mortality of forage fish varies with fish abundance.
4. December 2020 More than a quarter of the individual auks in which mercury levels were measured outside the breeding season exceeded the toxicity threshold.