May 2024 was the warmest May on record, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service. In Greece, the wildfire season has already started. What do NILU’s forest fire experts expect the summer will bring for Europe – and Norway?
According to a new report by the Global Carbon Project, emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas about 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020.
We often overlook the soil beneath our feet. Still, it is a vibrant and complex ecosystem that plays a critical role in supporting life on Earth.
The European-Japanese EarthCARE mission was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 00.20 CEST on Wednesday 29 May 2024.
Measuring concentrations of contaminants in Arctic air and biota is important. Still, it’s not always easy to know from measurements alone where contaminants originally come from. And how do they end up in fish caught in the Arctic?
This week, Norwegian research institute NILU and Polish CIEP finalized their collaboration on setting up a new atmospheric deposition monitoring network in Poland.
For the first time, scientists will have access to research infrastructures in both the Arctic and Antarctica through a single, unique project.
On January 1st 2024, the Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová bestowed the Order of Ľudovít Štúr 2nd class to NILU’s Dr Maria Dusinska.
Do you know the historical reason why we have winter holiday in Norway? Hint: It’s about heating – and money.
NILU and ACTRIS is an integral part of the ENVRI-Hub NEXT project, which will bring the gateway to discover the interdisciplinary environmental research data – ENVRI-Hub – to the NEXT level.
NILU’s board has decided to appoint Tomas Nordlander as NILU’s new CEO from 1 May 2024.
On 6 December, Lara Cioni defended her thesis “Human Exposure to PFAS and Other Anthropogenic Organofluorine Chemicals in Tromsø between 1986 and 2015″ for her PhD in health sciences at UiT the Arctic University of Norway.
The transport sector is a major contributor to environmental degradation, including air and noise pollution and damage to ecosystems and human health. A new research project, Net4Cities, will monitor and generate data to make it easier to assess related health impacts.
Today we launch our new visual identity!
Air pollution in Europe remains well above recommended World Health Organization (WHO) levels, posing a significant threat to our health.
On 25 October, NILU scientist Helene Lunder Halvorsen defended her doctoral thesis “Sources and processes controlling the occurrence of legacy POPs and organic contaminants of emerging concern in European air”.
On 6 October, scientist Elisabeth Elje at NILU’s department of environmental chemistry and health defended her doctoral thesis “Advanced lung and liver models for hazard characterization of nanomaterials”.
Nielsen takes up his new position as CEO at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute IVL on 1 January 2024.
New research findings show a connection between biological particles and the formation of ice crystals at high temperatures in clouds in the Arctic.
The second ACTRIS-Norway annual meeting was held at Norsk Folkemuseum on Bygdøy in Oslo on 18 September.
On Friday 1 September 2023, the climate and environmental research institute NILU establishes a subsidiary institute in Sweden. With that, NILU goes from being Norwegian to becoming Scandinavian.
Elisabeth Maråk Støle (Master of Business Studies/’Siviløkonom’) has been elected as a new board member of NILU from 1 July 2023.
The final event of the H2020 project RiskGONE, coordinated by NILU, will be in Madrid on the 15th and 16th June 2023.
Updated calculations carried out by atmosphere and climate scientists at NILU show that smoke from the forest fires in Canada is still drifting in over Norway.