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Oslo and Bergen can ban fossil-fueled cars

City officials in Oslo and Bergen are planning to make life even more difficult for motorists without electric cars. They've won state approval to...

Arctic oil prevails over ‘The People’

Norway's Supreme Court (Høyesterett) ruled in favour of the state on Tuesday in a long-running landmark case billed as pitting "The People vs Arctic Oil."...

Biden welcome, not his Arctic oil ban

The vast majority of Norway's top and mostly liberal politicians welcomed the news this week that Joe Biden finally has been officially elected as...

Norway no longer ‘best place to live’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Oil has long fueled Norway's hugely successful welfare state, but now it's helped knock the country off the top of the UN's...

New warmth records set in November

It's never been so warm in Norway's coastal town of Arendal in November as it was last month. State meteorologists registered warmth records elsewhere...

Cyclists equip themselves for winter

Avid cyclists in the Oslo area won't let winter's snow or ice slow them down. Nearly 3,000 of them have applied for financial incentives...

Norway pulls plug on el-car incentives

After years of encouraging Norwegians to buy electric cars, state and local politicians are now pulling the plug on some of their tax and...

Fury surrounds new Arctic oil licenses

The Norwegian government and Oil Minister Tina Bru came under harsh criticism this week when they offered 136 new oil exploration licenses in more...

High court ponders future of Arctic oil

Opponents of offshore oil activity in Norway's Arctic areas received flowers to mark the end last week of their landmark case against the state...

Emissions down, temperatures up

Norway has recorded a clear reduction of carbon emissions, down 3 percent from 2018 to 2019. Temperatures this fall, however, have risen far above...
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