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Norwegian gardens have gone from being full of fruits and berries to becoming flat lawns with trampolines and gas grills. “We have gardens that demand more, but give less back to nature,” says Professor Kyrre Kverndokk.

Team 'Wet Zero', consisting of four students in Sustainability at UiB, won the Sustainability Game 2025, earning an all-expenses-paid train journey to the Climate Conference in Durham. Below is their travel letter.

In mid-June, PhD candidate Emil Perron participated with a presentation at the 18th International Conference on Philosophical Practice, this time in Zagreb, Croatia.

How did our ancestors learn to craft tools, control fire, paint on cave walls, and sail across vast oceans — and how were these skills passed down through generations?

Her passion for archaeology was sparked the first time she witnessed an active archaeological dig. This spring, Asia Alsgaard supervised the SapienCE excavations at Klipdrift Cave during fieldwork in South Africa.

UiB Professor among the now 933 esteemed members.

Reiping Huang and colleagues applied CNA in the field of surgery and published their results in the world's most highly referenced surgery journal: Annals of Surgery. Their study explains the successful implementation of hospital enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) through unique configurations of contextual and implementation conditions.

Mathias Ambühl and Michael Baumgartner released version 4.0.0 of the cna R package on CRAN. Many new measures for sufficiency and necessity evaluation are now available for CNA model building.