News archive for Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)

These days, Norway's plan following the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (the Norwegian Action Plan for Natural Diversity) is being discussed in the Norwegian Parliament. Our expectation of this plan was that it would not only describe the status of Norwegian nature, but also take this knowledge seriously by proposing necessary measures to slow down and reverse the loss of nature... Read more

Students and staff from the University of Bergen, together with long-standing partners, cleaned “Plastic Island” Lisle Lyngøy during this year’s plastic cleanup campaign.

The collaborative project ECOBUDGETS will explore ways to integrate climate and nature budgets into administrative and political decisions at the municipal and county levels.

Starting October 1, the new name will be the Faculty of Science and Technology. We will certainly celebrate this!

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (COP16) is taking place in Colombia at the end of October, and CeSAM leaders have been making their opinions heard ahead of the meeting.

The Antarctic ice shelves – the floating glaciers surrounding most of the continent – are melting from below as oceanic currents bring warm water into the cavity. But how and how fast is the ice melting? In this Ocean Science Bar, you will learn why Antarctic ice shelves matter, about what happens below them, and about what it’s like to do fieldwork ”down south”.

Biological tubes are ubiquitous in animals, and their morphogenesis is a very complex process. In a new article, researchers in the Chatzigeorgiou group demonstrated the key role and function of the protein Anoctamine 10 in notochord formation in the tunicate Ciona.

Are irreplaceable natural and cultural values ​​in Western Norway in danger of being destroyed by industrial development? For some time, there has been debates about future industrial development in the western Norwegian municipality of Bremanger. UNESCO Chair for sustainable heritage and environmental management, Inger Måren, is engaged in this debate.