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Solheim leaves SV for the Greens

Norway's Greens Party doesn't seem to mind that Erik Solheim, their newest high-profile member, lost his job as head of the UN's environmental program...

Road tolls can cost the state dearly

Finance Minister Siv Jensen's Progress Party reignited the Norwegian government's internal battle over bompenger (road tolls) on Sunday. The ongoing battle is still threatening to...

Conflict erupts over rain forest funding

Ten years of funding rain forest preservation efforts in the Amazon, as a means of battling climate change, has suddenly left Norwegian officials disappointed...

Tempers rise over Greens’ ‘socialism’

Morning radio listeners got an earfull on Thursday, when the ever-provocative deputy leader of Norway's conservative Progress Party, Sylvi Listhaug, accused the Greens Party...

Electric plane crashed into lake

Norway's much-hyped and only electric aircraft lost power while making the latest in a round of promotional flights on Wednesday. At the helm was...

Oslo ‘to be emissions-free by 2030’

Norway's municipal election campaign is underway, with incumbent politicians in Oslo promising that they'll make the Norwegian capital emissions-free by 2030. Critics question whether...

More floods and slides in the forecast

Norwegian researchers and meteorologists are once again warning of more torrential rain, floods and landslides in the years to come. Extreme weather will be...

‘Food production must be changed’

Norwegians must join the rest of the world in eating less meat, and stop developing untouched natural areas, declared Norway's government minister in charge...

Freak rainstorm cut Oslo in two

State meteorologists are blaming climate change for a freak rainstorm in Oslo late Saturday night. It came suddenly and forcefully, but only cut through...

Glaciers melting at an alarming rate

Researchers, especially one who has studied Norway's second-largest glacier for the past 20 years, are sounding new alarms over how glaciers are melting. "It's...

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