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BSRS 2015: Sustainable development can be pursued with legal tools (17.06.2015)

A human rights based approach may make governments legally accountable for the political commitments made in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Kjersti Fløttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.

What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)

Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.

Photo of micro algae, used to illustrate an article about a new research project.

Turning micro algae into "green" plastic (02.06.2015)

A new research project aims to turn micro algae into recycled plastic and to develop super algae to bind CO2.