Tag: climate

Government quarrels over emissions

Norway's left-center coalition government has stayed united and in power for nearly six years, but quarrels continue. Now the three parties making up the...

Norway spews out more emissions

Norway bills itself as an environmentally friendly nation, but its own greenhouse gas emissions rose nearly 5 percent last year. The 53.7 million tons...

Record April warmest for 100 years

Further weather figures from the end of last month suggest that this April was the warmest since 1901 in many places, with record temperatures...

Warmest waters ever around Svalbard

Norwegian and other international researchers have uncovered a major increase in sea temperatures around Norway's northern archipelago of Svalbard. Their measurements shows that the...

Solheim happy with climate compromise

Erik Solheim, the Norwegian environment minister, won loud applause at last week's UN climate conference in Cancun, as he pleaded for a compromise to...

More delays at Mongstad

The Norwegian government's prestigious carbon capture project at Statoil's Mongstad plant faces even more delays, this time over ongoing concerns about health risks. The government...

Stoltenberg fairly ‘alone’ in Cancun

Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is the only government leader from western industrialized countries who has made the latest round of climate talks in...

Cold ‘confuses’ climate debate

A new survey conducted for four Norwegian newspapers shows that fewer Norwegians now think people are to blame for climate change. Researchers think they've...

Bellona boss knocked out by thieves

Frederic Hauge, the high-profile head of the environmental group Bellona, was forced to cancel his trip to the UN climate summit in Mexico this...

Ministries attempt to steer research

Will more wind turbines reduce Norway's use of more climate-threatening energy sources? Probably not, concluded a team of researchers asked to find an answer....
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