Tag: environment

Arctic drilling dispute heats up

As top government officials and business leaders huddled in southern Norway this week to discuss energy and environmental issues, oil and gas exploration plans...

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...

Oslo river hit by more pollution

Environmental experts were worried on Thursday that yet another polluting spill into the river that divides the west and east sides of Oslo would harm...

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...

Lofoten reprieve likely short-lived

A recommendation from Norway's oil minister to postpone oil exploration and production off Lofoten is no victory for the fishing industry and environmentalists trying...

Drilling off Lofoten can reap billions

UPDATED: Norway's oil and energy minister, bullish on the prospects for the country's oil industry, was smiling  after a new report claimed that drilling...

Smaller plates, less waste

Hotels in Norway and Sweden took part last summer in an interesting experiment that produced even more interesting results: Smaller plates provided to guests...

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...
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