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Thousands turned out to clean beaches

UPDATED: Record numbers of people signed up as volunteers to help pick up trash along Norway's long coastline over the weekend, from Svalbard in the...

Erik Solheim confirmed for UN post

UPDATED: Norway's former government minister for the environment is set to become chief of the entire world's environmental program. As newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported on...

Tesla has trouble paying its bills

Last week, the founder of the highly successful electric car company Tesla Motors was posing with government officials in Norway. This week comes news...

Tesla founder thanks Norway

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of the highly successful US-based Tesla Motors, was back in Norway this week and full of appreciation for how Norwegian officials...

Norwegian Air plays its climate card

The US government's top transport official was in Norway this week, but he reportedly had no time to meet one-on-one with the boss of the Norwegian...

City bosses collided with own car rules

Oslo's two top political leaders have been all but run over in recent days by critics who view them as little more than hypocrites who don't...

Wolf plan met by howls of protest

New proposals for maintaining a wolf population in Norway left all sides howling Friday in the ongoing wildlife management debate. The government claims it mostly...

Record little ice, record thin ozone

As Southern Norway basked in unseasonably warm sunshine this week came news of record little ice in the Arctic and reports that the Barents Sea...

Oil field starts up in disputed Barents

Italian oil company Eni could finally start up oil production at its Goliat field in the Barents Sea over the weekend, two years after...

Little progress as coal dust settles

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway made international headlines last year, and won lots of positive feedback, when the Norwegian Parliament ordered the country's huge sovereign wealth...

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