Tag: climate
‘Let’s drill off Lofoten this year”
Oil and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe now wants to open up waters off scenic Lofoten for oil drilling later this year, stirring up...
South Pole expedition ends in court
An expedition to the South Pole led by one of Norway's most famous adventurers, Børge Ousland, continued in an Oslo court this week, after...
Climate deal OK’d, but disappoints
Government ministers from Norway and Brazil have managed to push through an extension of the closest thing the world has to an agreement to...
Norway tackles tough climate job
Norwegian cabinet minister Bård Vegar Solhjell faced a tough job this week when he arrived in Doha to help extend the Kyoto Protocol at...
Glaciers keep shrinking
Most of the glaciers in Norway are now smaller than they've been for several hundred years, according to new measurements taken by the Norwegian...
CO2 levels rise again on Svalbard
The impact of global warming has mostly fallen off the front pages of Norwegian newspapers recently, but new evidence from Norway's far northern archipelago...
Arctic drilling plans called ‘immoral’
Environmental organizations were quick to vent their fury over new plans, announced Tuesday by Norwegian oil company Statoil, to dramatically expand oil exploration activity...
Calls rise for less oil sector activity
Unhappy oil rig workers aren't the only ones calling for a reduction in the tempo of oil exploration and production on Norway's continental shelf....
‘Godmother Gro’ hailed in Rio
Former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was the target of much attention in Rio de Janeiro this week, at the latest international climate...
Oslo may restrict driving with diesel
Norway's government once urged Norwegians to buy cars that use diesel, thinking they were less polluting, but later determined that wasn't true because of...
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