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UNESCO recently welcomed 11 new areas into the family of Biosphere Reserves. Two of the countries, Belgium and Gambia, are recieving their first ever BR designations. The other nine countries recieving new biosphere designations are Colombia, Dominican Republic, Italy, Mongolia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Korea, Slovenia and Spain.

This paper presents a modelling approach to simulate fracture deformation, propagation, and coalescence in porous media under anisotropic stress and fluid injection.

Join us for a live stream of a remotely-operated dive at Loki's castle hydrothermal vent field in the Arctic, 2300 meters below sea level.

For the second time, Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere hosted the now annual Biosphere Day 30 May 2024. This years’ theme was Green transitions: Energy, land-use pressure and nature in Nordhordland. Politicians, municipal employees, researchers, and businesspeople all attended to discuss the future needs of the region.

Offering a unique perspective on the latest advances in Developmental Biology, the Nordic Developmental Biology Societies & Michael Sars Symposium Joint Meeting attracted a diverse audience and strengthened connections between Nordic and international institutions.

“There is hope in science and research”, said Rector Margareth Hagen in her welcome address to the one hundred PhD candidates from more than thirty countries taking part in the seventeenth Bergen Summer Research School.

By studying the distribution range of plants in mountains globally, researchers at the University of Bergen have tested a new hypothesis that may change our understanding of how plants respond to temperature variation.

Yan Li, an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, has been working on developing theoretical models to predict the occurrence probability of so-called “rogue waves” or “freak waves.” These waves can be approximately three times higher than the average wave height and are extremely dangerous for ships and other marine operations.