Tag: environment

School climate strikes spread

Elementary, high school and college students in Norway are joining their counterparts abroad in shirking school on Fridays, to rally for the climate and...

Norway to start charting insects

Mosquitos can be a nuisance and no one likes having to swat flies or be stung by wasps, but they're all a critical part...

Record warmth ‘frightening’

Thermometers hit nearly 19C (around 67F) in some parts of Southern Norway on Tuesday, setting off a winter heat wave that both meteorologists and...

Finnmark mining protests underway

Government ministers arriving for the weekly Council of State at the Royal Palace on Friday were met by noisy and angry demonstrators, protesting their...

Sparks fly over Finnmark mining

While local elected officials were celebrating with cake, protests poured in over the Conservative state government's decision on Thursday to finally allow mining operations...

Stavanger plagued by rats

Pest control experts say they haven't seen so many rats in Stavanger for 30 years. They're questioning whether the increase in the rat population...

Climate change ravages Svalbard

A new report compiled by Norway's leading climate researchers predicts much warmer temperatures on the Arctic island group of Svalbard in the years ahead,...

Auditor slams oil safety regulator

Environmental activists were alarmed this week, after Norway's state auditor general's office all but blasted Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (Petroleumstilsynet, PTIL) for not doing...

Norway hands out more oil licenses

While his colleagues in Parliament were reeling over a report on poor regulation of Norway's offshore installations, and another shows that most young Norwegians...

Wolf debate ‘blown out of proportion’

It was the wildlife preservationists' turn on Saturday to demonstrate by the thousands in favour of protecting Norway's roughly 60 surviving wolves. As their...
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