Organic salmon has more Omega-3
A small share of Norwegian farmed salmon is produced organically. The organic product has the same quality as other farmed salmon, but has more Omega-3.
View ArticleDamming bogs can curb climate gases
Farmers can help reduce CO2 emissions by restoring bogs which were previously drained for agriculture.
View ArticleNew gear eases logging operations
New portable gear for cableways makes strenuous Norwegian logging work a little easier.
View ArticleThe oldest spruce in Northern Europe is 532 years old
Northern Europe’s oldest spruce is still growing strong in a Norwegian forest. It outdates Martin Luther and was a young tree before Columbus reached the
View ArticleNew invention helps reduce pesticide suicides
Pesticides are one of the world’s most common suicide methods. New container makes it difficult to gain access to these deadly substances.
View ArticleTurning toxic vegetable refuse into nutritious animal feed
New research makes it possible to remove growth-inhibiting natural toxins from protein-rich waste products.
View ArticleStandard research fish lacks a standard diet
Zebrafish have been used as a research standard to help scientists expand our understanding of everything from skin cancers to cardiovascular disease. But one
View ArticleSoft sea slugs pack a hard punch
Sea slugs may sound like they're soft and squishy, but they have poisonous tentacles and eat nearly everything they come across, including each
View ArticleCheese waste can replace antibiotics in pig feed
Farmers are feeding their pigs with so many antibiotics that we are becoming increasingly resistant to them. Now a Danish researcher has discovered that cheese
View ArticleHow the heavy plough changed the world
New technology ploughed its way to prosperity in medieval Northern Europe.
View ArticleNew signs of pre-Viking life on the Faroe Islands
The earliest traces of human life on the Faroe Islands date back to the Viking era. But new pollen analyses suggest that people, and perhaps even agriculture,
View ArticleWant some week-old fish?
Most of us would refrain from buying fresh fish that was caught more than three days ago. But if we don’t know the day of catch, we gladly consume fish that is
View ArticleA cold cure for sick fish
When pipefish are sick, they swim towards cooler water to get better. But what will happen when global warming causes the world's seas to heat up?
View ArticleSedatives turn fish into unsociable gluttons
Drug residues in the waterways can have unexpected consequences for our ecosystems, say Swedish researchers after exposing perch to anti-anxiety drugs.
View ArticleLarger offspring when fish pick own mates
It might not be so advantageous for us to help endangered animal species by selecting what we consider suitable mates for them.
View ArticleFish migrate to avoid predators
Tagged fish reveal that animals migrate to avoid being eaten by predators.
View ArticleDNA test rewrites history of Greenland cod
The fish in Greenland’s great cod boom in the 1960s did not come from Iceland, as previously thought. They were ‘made in Greenland’
View ArticleCutting weeds in the fall is no help
Gardeners must attack in the summer to get rid of many perennial weeds.
View ArticleReindeer thrive on forest diversity
An arboreal mix of species and ages is vital to effective reindeer husbandry.
View ArticlePlant sap is twice as sweet as cola
A new study has looked at how sweet plant juice needs to be to give the plant the optimal energy yield. Ideally, it should be twice as sweet as cola.
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