Environment

Being a PhD Candidate comes with many trade-offs. One of them is the tunnel vision that we develop by virtue of scrutinizing chosen topics…

Many of the glaciers in Svalbard are heavily crevassed. A multidisciplinary research group is now using drones to create high-resolution maps of glacier surfaces to study how crevasses influence the rate of heat exchange with the atmosphere.

When you are planning a neighbourhood with no greenhouse gas emissions, you need a thorough understanding of a neighbourhood’s buildings, their age, size, materials,…

Many previous studies are somewhat ambivalent about the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift. Our new study in Nature Climate Change shows that the shift may reduce climate impacts of at least 50%.

In order to stay warm, we usually require a certain indoor temperature all year around. This can get expensive in cold countries like Norway, not only for the household economy, but also for the environment. However, this might change with new, smart controls of heating systems.

On September 12th 2018, R/V Kronprins Haakon left Longyearbyen on the second cruise in the research project named “the Nansen Legacy”. Its goal, to…

The building sector makes up 40% of the total energy use in Norway. That is why policy makers aim to encourage the construction of…

The “Green Warriors” is a student group consisting of seven students from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU),…