Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
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New article! Researchers GPS-tracked 349 individuals across 18 species. Result?
👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it.
🐆 🦌 🐗
With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it.
🐆 🦌 🐗
With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sex Drives Intraspecific Scaling of Home Range Size in Mammals
We GPS tracked 349 resident individuals across 18 mammal species to, for the first time, gain a broad understanding of how individuals' sex modulates home range scaling within species. Males showed a....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New article! Researchers GPS-tracked 349 individuals across 18 species. Result?
👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it.
🐆 🦌 🐗
With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it.
🐆 🦌 🐗
With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An international research team, have shown that the egg color is inherited exclusively through the maternal lineage.
www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-10...
www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-10...
Cuckoos: maternal genes responsible for differently colored eggs
European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An international research team, have shown that the egg color is inherited exclusively through the maternal lineage.
www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-10...
www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-10...
How can science better inform global efforts on biodiversity and climate? #iucn_World_Conservation_Congress
Advancing Global Biodiversity and Climate Action at IUCN World Conservation Congress
The IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 is held in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Photo credit: IUCN
Once every four years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) gathers the global conservati...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
How can science better inform global efforts on biodiversity and climate? #iucn_World_Conservation_Congress
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🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch.
This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.
This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]
This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.
This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch.
This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.
This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]
This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.
This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]
Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. Using our method, journalists from 11 countries have uncovered the extent of the nature loss. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The #greentogrey project was coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK.
The #greentogrey project was coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK.
Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. Using our method, journalists from 11 countries have uncovered the extent of the nature loss. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The #greentogrey project was coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK.
The #greentogrey project was coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK.
Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. No complete overview has existed on how much is disappearing – until now.
Read about how we helped journalists uncover how Europe is going from #greentogrey, coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK: www.nina.no/english/Abou...
Read about how we helped journalists uncover how Europe is going from #greentogrey, coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK: www.nina.no/english/Abou...
How We Helped Journalists Uncover Nature Loss in Europe
Using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI), we have, together with 40 journalists and researchers from eleven countries, uncovered large-scale loss of nature and farmland across Europe.
...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. No complete overview has existed on how much is disappearing – until now.
Read about how we helped journalists uncover how Europe is going from #greentogrey, coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK: www.nina.no/english/Abou...
Read about how we helped journalists uncover how Europe is going from #greentogrey, coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK: www.nina.no/english/Abou...
– Det er et enormt kunnskapsbehov!
Vi etterlyser mer kunnskap om hvordan pukkellaks påvirker villaks, og om effekten av mulige tiltak. vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nytt...
Vi etterlyser mer kunnskap om hvordan pukkellaks påvirker villaks, og om effekten av mulige tiltak. vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nytt...
August 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
– Det er et enormt kunnskapsbehov!
Vi etterlyser mer kunnskap om hvordan pukkellaks påvirker villaks, og om effekten av mulige tiltak. vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nytt...
Vi etterlyser mer kunnskap om hvordan pukkellaks påvirker villaks, og om effekten av mulige tiltak. vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nytt...
The Pamela drone helps NINA track invasive species #eDNA www.nina.no/english/Abou...
The Pamela drone helps NINA track invasive species
USV Pamela is a small and lightweight uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) developed by F&Z Solutions in Trondheim for environmental monitoring in lakes, rivers, and coastal waters. The platform enables the...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Pamela drone helps NINA track invasive species #eDNA www.nina.no/english/Abou...
NINA researcher Roel May did an 11-year study to examine if painting one blade of wind turbines black would save the lives of eagles. Now scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — from painting stripes to using AI — to keep birds safe. e360.yale.edu/features/win...
Birds vs. Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths
Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — f...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
NINA researcher Roel May did an 11-year study to examine if painting one blade of wind turbines black would save the lives of eagles. Now scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — from painting stripes to using AI — to keep birds safe. e360.yale.edu/features/win...
Large numbers of pink salmon are relatively new to Norway’s coasts and rivers, and so is our knowledge about their potential impacts on these ecosystems. #pinksalmon
Ecological impact of juvenile Pacific pink salmon
Get ready for the 2025 pink salmon run when locals and fishing associations will trap as many pink salmon as possible
framforum.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Large numbers of pink salmon are relatively new to Norway’s coasts and rivers, and so is our knowledge about their potential impacts on these ecosystems. #pinksalmon
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Årets statusrapport for norsk villaks er lansert! 2024 ble nok et historisk dårlig år for norsk villaks, med flere dystre rekorder. www.vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nye-...
Nye dystre rekorder for norsk villaks
Laksebestandene har vært på et bekymringsverdig lavt nivå i mange år, og de siste fire årene har det vært en ytterligere nedgang.
Aldri tidligere har det kommet så få laks tilbake fra havet til Norg...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Årets statusrapport for norsk villaks er lansert! 2024 ble nok et historisk dårlig år for norsk villaks, med flere dystre rekorder. www.vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nye-...
Using metabarcoding to monitor insect populations, Norway is the first country in Europe to implement this methodology in a Government led program. The same methodology could be applied across Europe for cost-effective monitoring of the neglected majority of insect species. #insectmonitoring
The traps are set in Norway's country-wide insect monitoring program
Insects are essential for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. They contribute to pollination, nutrient cycling, food webs, and natural pest control, and also serve as bioindicators, providing ...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Using metabarcoding to monitor insect populations, Norway is the first country in Europe to implement this methodology in a Government led program. The same methodology could be applied across Europe for cost-effective monitoring of the neglected majority of insect species. #insectmonitoring
In a study conducted in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, researchers from SEAPOP have used a nearly 40 year-long data series to assess how changes in sea ice affect the breeding distribution of common eiders. www.nina.no/english/Abou...
Sea ice affects population dynamics in common eiders
A rapidly changing habitat
Sea ice is significant for the ecology of many arctic species. The Arctic is now heating up four times more quickly than any other place on earth, and we need to know the c...
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April 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In a study conducted in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, researchers from SEAPOP have used a nearly 40 year-long data series to assess how changes in sea ice affect the breeding distribution of common eiders. www.nina.no/english/Abou...
New international study published in #Nature presents a powerful framework for identifying the “missing” species from #ecosystems.
Norwegian Research Contributes to Global 'Dark Diversity' Study, Offering New Insights into Biodiversity Loss
Photo credit: Robert Lewis, NINA
Behind the study is a global research network of more than 200 researchers, called DarkDivNet, coordinated by the University of Tartu in Estonia, and advised by an i...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New international study published in #Nature presents a powerful framework for identifying the “missing” species from #ecosystems.
If you are studying specific details of a single species’ performance in relation to water temperature in a lake, why bother about what happens downstream?
It is time to look outwards again, towards broader horizons. #FramForum #NatureResearch
It is time to look outwards again, towards broader horizons. #FramForum #NatureResearch
Outside of my own ecosystem!
Once upon a time, scientists had a broad, holistic approach to research. They might explore everything from animals and plants to minerals, water and air currents. As scientific knowledge expanded and...
framforum.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If you are studying specific details of a single species’ performance in relation to water temperature in a lake, why bother about what happens downstream?
It is time to look outwards again, towards broader horizons. #FramForum #NatureResearch
It is time to look outwards again, towards broader horizons. #FramForum #NatureResearch
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Really nice talk about common Greenshank breeding ecology by @bksandercock.bsky.social from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social. Taking data from 40-90 years ago to estimate demographics using modern methods. Females could be individually identified from egg patterns! #NOF2025
April 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Really nice talk about common Greenshank breeding ecology by @bksandercock.bsky.social from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social. Taking data from 40-90 years ago to estimate demographics using modern methods. Females could be individually identified from egg patterns! #NOF2025
Available position as Researcher in Terrestrial Ecology in Tromsø! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/72-rese...
April 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Available position as Researcher in Terrestrial Ecology in Tromsø! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/72-rese...
The wild reindeer in Norway no longer use the calving grounds surrounding the public tourist cabin Pyttbua. Should the Government allow the cabin to be upgraded—or should tourism in the area rather be limited? NINA has simulated the potential consequences. #WildReindeer
Simulating Removal of a Popular Tourist Cabin: Consequences for Wild Reindeer
Until recently, the entire Reinheimen mountain area in Norway was used by wild reindeer, and the area around the Norwegian Trekking Association’s (DNT) cabin Pyttbua served as calving grounds. However...
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April 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The wild reindeer in Norway no longer use the calving grounds surrounding the public tourist cabin Pyttbua. Should the Government allow the cabin to be upgraded—or should tourism in the area rather be limited? NINA has simulated the potential consequences. #WildReindeer
Christopher O’Sullivan, Irish minister for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, and Duncan Halley, senior research scientist at NINA, are equally enthusiastic about the White-tailed Sea Eagle reintroduction programme.
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White-tailed Sea Eagle reintroduction
YouTube video by Naturforskning
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April 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Christopher O’Sullivan, Irish minister for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, and Duncan Halley, senior research scientist at NINA, are equally enthusiastic about the White-tailed Sea Eagle reintroduction programme.
youtu.be/UZQbuy5UPWY
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NINA is expanding its expertise in vegetation ecology and restoration and is seeking a skilled and dedicated researcher to strengthen our team in Bergen.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NINA is expanding its expertise in vegetation ecology and restoration and is seeking a skilled and dedicated researcher to strengthen our team in Bergen.
nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/70-rese...
nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/70-rese...
Large carnivores have returned to Europe—but the wolf protection status is being reduced.
A major EU-funded project will identify how to ensure coexistence between people and carnivores.
A major EU-funded project will identify how to ensure coexistence between people and carnivores.
How Can We Co-Exist With More Large Carnivores?
Wolf photographed by a camera trap in Norway in February 2023. Photo credit: Viltkamera.nina.no
Over the past 30 to 40 years, large carnivores such as the brown bear and wolf have made a comeback acr...
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March 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Large carnivores have returned to Europe—but the wolf protection status is being reduced.
A major EU-funded project will identify how to ensure coexistence between people and carnivores.
A major EU-funded project will identify how to ensure coexistence between people and carnivores.
Researchers have uncovered a vast ecosystem on an Antarctica ice cap. The communities, largely made up of photosynthetic algae, are likely to host new species to science, and have been shown to add to melting of the ice caps in the region. #PolarResearch
Vibrant life on Antarctica’s ice caps: Scientists reveal vast communities of photosynthetic algae on the ice
A research team led by Dr Matthew Davey at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) spent two months studying algal and plant communities on the Robert Island ice cap, a remote part of the n...
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March 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Researchers have uncovered a vast ecosystem on an Antarctica ice cap. The communities, largely made up of photosynthetic algae, are likely to host new species to science, and have been shown to add to melting of the ice caps in the region. #PolarResearch
Available position as Senior Engineer Seabirds in NINA. The work includes monitoring and research on seabirds and human-made challenges such as fisheries, climate and offshore wind development and mapping of distribution and area use.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Available position as Senior Engineer Seabirds in NINA. The work includes monitoring and research on seabirds and human-made challenges such as fisheries, climate and offshore wind development and mapping of distribution and area use.
nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/68-seni...
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Norwegian hydropower considers itself strong on sustainability, but a study from the research center HydroCen shows significant variation in how the hydropower industry handles challenges related to environmental measures. #renewableenergy
Hydropower Sees Itself as Green – But Becomes Uncertain Facing Sustainability Demands
Norway is one of the world’s largest producers of hydropower, with 90% of the country’s electricity generated by this renewable energy source. Hydropower thus plays a key role in achieving climate cha...
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March 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Norwegian hydropower considers itself strong on sustainability, but a study from the research center HydroCen shows significant variation in how the hydropower industry handles challenges related to environmental measures. #renewableenergy
Since 2007, 200 Norwegian sea eagle chicks have found a new home in Ireland. This summer the final release of fledglings in Ireland marks the completion of the establishment phase of the white-tailed sea eagle project. #EcologicalRestoration
Irish White-tailed Sea Eagles Soar on Their Own Wings
Like many other predators and birds of prey, the sea eagle has historically been seen as a competitor for wild and fish resources and a threat to livestock, leading to intense persecution. As a result...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Since 2007, 200 Norwegian sea eagle chicks have found a new home in Ireland. This summer the final release of fledglings in Ireland marks the completion of the establishment phase of the white-tailed sea eagle project. #EcologicalRestoration