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How does upbringing affect your likelihood of developing obesity and cardiovascular disease?

New study shows that the parents, aunts and uncles of overweight young adults have a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Is this the result of nature or nurture?

Low-carbon energy transition. Theme of the Empowered Futures Research School.

NMBU to lead new PhD school on the green shift and energy transition

New research school to strengthen the societal relevance of doctoral education by addressing the social and environmental controversies of transitioning to a low carbon society.

Publications 2023

Latest academic journal articles, books and book chapters from NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society.

PhD course: Extraction Ethnographies

Extraction Ethnographies is the result of a collaboration between the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU and the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture …

2 NMBU professors selected for UN Climate Panel

Noragric's Tor A. Benjaminsen and Siri Eriksen are selected to work on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s next assessment report.

NMBU welcome a delegation of various parties involved with the peace process in Mali.

Working towards peace and food security in Mali

Peace process delegation from Mali visit NMBU to get acquainted with the university's innovative work towards combatting insecurity - particularly food shortage - in the country

NMBU professor on list of highly cited researchers

NMBU’s professor Douglas Sheil features on a new list of Highly Cited Researchers. Sheil is an ecologist with more than twenty years of research experience on tropical forest ecology.

Hvilke typer byrom gir oss en følelse av velvære? Er det steder omgitt av tradisjonell arkitektur og utforming, eller er det på steder preget av moderne arkitektur?

Traditional architecture gives better sense of well-being than contemporary glass and steel buildings

Det viser en fersk studie hvor forskerne har tatt i bruk siste skrik innen virtuell virkelighets-teknologi (VR).

Til tross for omfattende tiltak er forskere ved NMBU bekymret for hvordan afrikanske land skal møte den globale viruskrisen

Scientists are concerned about the spread of the coronavirus in Africa

Mangel på rent vann og såpe, svake helsesystemer og stor fattigdom gjør at mange afrikanske land er dårlig stilt i møte med koronaviruset, som er i rask spredning på kontinentet.

Major investment in innovation in agriculture in Malawi

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Church Aid, the Development Fund, NMBU and a number of Malawian partners have entered into an agreement to strengthen the agricultural sector in Malawi.