Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)

A picture of both the winners

We’re delighted to announce that the winners of NORRN’s 2025 Open Science award are Dr Caitlin Mandeville and Dr Anders Lorentzen Kolstad 🏆

New tool for predicting effects of offshore wind farms on seabirds The development of offshore wind is a key instrument in the shift toward renewable energy, but such interventions can also impact marine biodiversity. Seabirds are among the most threatened bird…

Using advanced modelling, we can now better measure the lethal and non-lethal effects of #offshore #wind power plants on #seabirds - read more here: seapop.no/en/2026/02/n...
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Two cod in a steep habitat with a substrate of stones.

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High resolution tracking reveals strong habitat selection in cod!
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Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

Researchers sampling forest communities

Gullenhaugen Nature Reserve in Norway, where the research in Fungal Ecology was conducted

Four components of functional diversity of dead wood

What characteristics of dead wood promote fungal species richness in forests? And how can we use this information to manage fungal biodiversity?

New research on the functional diversity of dead wood in Norwegian forests provides some answers.
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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....

New article! Researchers GPS-tracked 349 individuals across 18 species. Result?
👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it.
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With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more

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An international research team, have shown that the egg color is inherited exclusively through the maternal lineage.
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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...

How can science better inform global efforts on biodiversity and climate? #iucn_World_Conservation_Congress

🚨 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]

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

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.

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. ...

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...

– Det er et enormt kunnskapsbehov!
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 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...

The Pamela drone helps NINA track invasive species #eDNA www.nina.no/english/Abou...

Could Black Paint Protect Birds from Wind Turbines? Wind turbines are killing birds, especially eagles, but painting one blade black could reduce deaths by 70%. Why aren't more wind farms adopting this simple solution? Ecologist Roel May's study faces ...

You can also read more about Roel May's 11-year study to reduce raptor deaths in @spectrum.ieee.org: spectrum.ieee.org/bird-deaths-...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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-...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

New international study published in #Nature presents a powerful framework for identifying the “missing” species from #ecosystems.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

White-tailed Sea Eagle reintroduction YouTube video by Naturforskning

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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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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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...

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.

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...

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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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...

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