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We think that it is very important to communicate with and disseminate our findings to a varied audience. And that definitely includes the next generation! So we have written two new articles for children. One is about the danger of plastic pollution for animals in the ocean and the other
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On 31 October 2025 Philip Gjedde succesfully defended his PhD about including marine invasive species impacts into life cycle impact assessment. The defense also included a trial lecture with the title "Inclusion of biodiversity impacts from marine invasive species in maritime polices: Examples, uncertainties and potential economic trade-offs&
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The NTNU University museum has opened a new exhibition on 31 January with the title “Framtiden er lys” (The Future is bright). How would the future look like if all people and policy-makers would take action against the looming climate and biodiversity crises today? The exhibition centers around the
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Earlier this month, members of the ATLANTIS project took part in two events related to plastic pollution. These events brought together researchers, PhD candidates, and the public to explore the impact of plastics on the environment and highlight the need for urgent interventions. The MAPLE Project in the Spotlight On
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On Friday the 13th of September Marthe Alnes Høiberg defended her PhD thesis with the title “Towards inclusion of plastic pollution in Life Cycle Assessments: Impacts of entanglement from species to ecosystem quality level”. Marthe has written about the impacts of plastic entaglement within life cycle impact assessment and has
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We are excited to announce the publication of our latest research, "Disentangling marine plastic impacts in Life Cycle Assessment: Spatially explicit Characterization Factors for ecosystem quality" in Science of the Total Environment. While many studies have addressed and reported on different impacts of plastic pollution, the Life Cycle
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Biological invasions are considered one of the five greatest drivers to biodiversity loss. In our new article, we assess a relative impact, globally and regionally. As a result we can map out sort of a "priority map".
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Francesca Verones and Martin Dorber visited a second class in Trondheim to teach and inform about plastic and its environmental impacts. We talked about how plastics are made, how much is thrown away and what happens with the plastic that is not properly managed. The children were very engaged and
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In the peaceful waters of Frøya's Archipelago, located off the coast of Norway, a silent crisis unfolds: plastic is polluting hundreds of small islands. This newly initiated project in the archipelago seeks to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and combat the plastic pollution washing up on its
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Plastic waste can not only lead to physical impacts, like entanglement or ingestion, but it is suspected, that it can also lead to toxic impacts. In this publication, Naiara Casagrande, affiliated with the ATLANTIS project, has developed effect factors for additives that are used in plastic products. The results of
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Our paper about the MarInvaders WebTool has finally been published in Ecosphere. We have built a tool to visualize the database that we compiled previously. We collected data for 966 aliens pecies for 225 marine ecoregions and also included over 1500 species that are threatened by invasive species. While the
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Guest author: Gabrielle Häberli Time: 12th of October 2023 Location: Dokkhuset, Trondheim. Plastics – incredibly useful Plastic is an umbrella term describing a wide range of materials often perceived as "non-natural". They date back more than 100 years although their production only really "took flight" as