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Gas leak and emissions ‘enormous’

Methane gas emissions were swirling over Scandinavia this week, after explosions on two Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea blew out a total...

Oil Fund uses its clout to cut emissions

Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund has long put social and ethical demands on the companies in which it invests. Now its managers also want...

No more shame over oil and gas

A new market analysis shows that state oil company Equinor is currently earning more money than any other Norwegian company ever has. Equinor's huge...

No transit fare relief as tolls rise

Oslo promotes an image of itself as a climate-minded capital, but fares for public transport remain much higher than in most other cities around...

Record heat sets off flood warnings

Northern Norway sweated through sudden and record-high temperatures this week and now they've set off rapid melting of snow that was still lying at...

State tests new definition of a ‘heat wave’

Climate change seems to have led to such warmer temperatures more frequently that Norwegian state meteorologists will be testing out a new definition of...

Oslo still needs to save water

Even though it's finally been raining in the Norwegian capital, and quite a lot at times, it still hasn't been enough to sufficiently raise...

Water warnings high despite rain

Some welcome rain over Southern Norway in the past few days has reduced forest fire danger but water shortages loom, especially in Oslo. Not...

Climate activists disrupted Parliament

Demonstrators from the climate and environmental organization Extinction Rebellion's youth group fastened themselves to railings in the Norwegian Parliament's public gallery on Tuesday and...

Calls go out to lower speed limits

Norway's national automobile federation NAF has joined environmentalists, farmers and the Greens Party in recommending that speed limits on Norwegian highways be rolled back...
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