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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...

Central bank chief backs oil industry

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's oil industry and its supportive Norwegian government have won backing from the country's central bank chief to keep on pumping and...

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...

Gasoline, diesel sales dive

Sales of both gasoline (petrol) and diesel fell 28 percent last year in the western neighbourhoods of Oslo, and 16 percent in suburban Asker...

Stock exchange takeover hailed

A constallation of several European stock exchanges called Euronext is offering to take over the Oslo Stock Exchange for NOK 6.2 billion. While its...

Climate debate will still flare in Norway

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway nurtures an environmentally conscious image, but the country still has a long way to go in tackling its own climate challenges....

‘Goliat’ platform in trouble again

The huge Goliat oil platform, Norway's first in the Barents Sea, is still plagued by so many technical problems that safety regulators are warning...

Norway falls in climate rankings

Norway's Climate and Environment Minister Ola Elvestuen was worried before he traveled to the UN's climate summit in Poland this week, and he had...

Bergen is most future-oriented

Norway's West Coast city of Bergen has preserved its history but also is best equipped to tackle the future, according to a survey of...

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