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Weather radars reveal where birds migrate
12. February 2024

Radars that are used to report the weather also provide valuable insight into which migratory routes birds use. For the first time this tool will be used to map bird migration in Norway.

The World’s best method to capture and store carbon
8. December 2022

Nature does the job for us, for free.  But, in the search for good measures to compensate for man-made greenhouse gas emissions, carbon emissions from disturbance or loss of biodiversity caused by these measures are often not included in the calculation.

Footprint and Impacts of Renewable Energy: Pressure on Lands Under Growth
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.
Seabirds consume higher proportions of fish stocks when prey abundance is low
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.

Seabirds consume higher proportions of fish stocks when prey abundance is low
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.

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