Helsinki could become a 'sanctuary city' for medical treatment, as the new right-wing government continues to crack down on undocumented migrants ~health healthcare Article 941 words 8 votes
Paris reveals a new cable car for commuters that could be running by 2025 ~transport Article 394 words, published Feb 7 2022 31 votes
AI has helped radiologists detect 20% more cases of breast cancer during screenings, new Swedish study finds ~health medicine healthcare Article 926 words 25 votes
Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins ~enviro Link 38 votes
Women in Denmark can now take a blood test to identify genetic foetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. But it has raised ethical questions. ~health healthcare Article 683 words 62 votes
Self-driving electric commuter ferry takes to the water on its maiden voyage in Stockholm ~transport Article 207 words 1 vote
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised ~humanities.history Article 1004 words 12 votes
Sweden is on course to become one of the world's first smoke-free countries, defined as less than 5% of the adult population smoking ~health Link 15 votes
Respect existence or expect resistance – protests in Norway against wind farm on Sámi land ~enviro energy.renewable Article 484 words 3 votes
Nine in ten new cars sold in Norway are electric or hybrid, compared to less than half of those sold in the EU. What's Norway's secret? ~transport Article 1215 words 11 votes
The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue ~enviro Link 5 votes
The first of its kind in the world, an e-motorway may lead to an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric roads in Sweden by 2045 ~transport Article 795 words 3 votes
Danish study exposes links between toxic PFAS, otherwise known as forever chemicals, and weight loss relapse ~health Article 527 words 3 votes
Chinese EV maker NIO has opened its first European "Power Swap Station" in Denmark – drivers can stop to replace their battery with a fully charged one ~tech Article 528 words 13 votes
Across the whole of Europe, a lot of women are pregnant or have conceived children from sperm donors through Danish sperm banks ~life.women Article 965 words 7 votes
Scientists use rocket to create artificial Northern Lights to better understand space weather ~space rocketry satellites Link 3 votes
More Swedish mothers are having babies after the age of forty-five than teenagers, new data from the Scandinavian country shows ~life.women Link 3 votes
Finland is the European country with the highest proportion of under 25s dying from drugs ~health Article 403 words 6 votes
Bergen is gearing up to open the world's longest purpose-built pedestrian and bicycle tunnel – 2.9km tunnel takes 30-45 minutes to walk through ~transport Link 8 votes
Inside Denmark's opioid crisis – more teens are abusing opioids because they take the pills both to get high and to cope with anxiety ~health.mental Article 673 words 3 votes
Denmark should aim to reduce beef and dairy production by introducing a farming emissions tax in order to reach its ambitious climate targets ~enviro climate change pollution Link 3 votes
The National Museum of Denmark is paying tribute not to professional archaeologists, but to amateurs with metal detectors ~hobbies Article 455 words 3 votes
Meet the man building a thousand wheelchair ramps in Iceland – Ramp Up Iceland aim to make everyday life less challenging for people with physical disabilities ~life Article 659 words 4 votes
Finland has passed a new, progressive rights law which makes it substantially easier for trans people to change their legal gender ~lgbt transgender Article 466 words 9 votes
Cash-strapped Finnish zoo is preparing to return two giant pandas on loan from China as it can no longer afford their upkeep ~enviro conservation Link 5 votes
An exhibition being held at the Kling & Bang gallery in Iceland is the first ever retrospective of the Russian feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot ~arts art.performance Article 642 words 7 votes
Denmark has managed to anger the Evangelical Lutheran Church and hundreds of thousands of Danish voters – all because of a public holiday ~humanities religion Article 928 words 6 votes
Denmark's Noma, which has regularly topped the list of the world's best restaurants in its twenty-year history, will close at the end of 2024 ~food restaurants Link 8 votes
Sweden and France could be set to join forces to build new nuclear power stations in the Nordic nation ~enviro Article 426 words 5 votes
Denmark's largest bank Danske Bank has been fined €470 million over an international money laundering scandal ~finance banking Article 239 words 4 votes
Esrange Space Center in Sweden has become the leading prospective candidate for Europe's first mainland satellite launch ~space satellites Link 4 votes
Denmark's long Covid patients feel abandoned by pandemic response ~health healthcare Article 1025 words 5 votes
Swedish truck manufacturer Scania the first in Europe to pilot autonomous vehicles while delivering commercial goods – pilot project covering a stretch of some 300km ~transport Article 710 words 4 votes
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones ~enviro Article 938 words 3 votes
With bi-directional charging, the Volvo EX90 basically works as a power bank, allowing the battery to store electricity that can later be transferred back into an owner's home ~transport Link 4 votes
Jimmy Sandberg: ‘Erling Haalands popularity, and a spelling error, is drowning out our beloved Swedish region of Halland on the internet right now’ ~sports.football Article 285 words 4 votes
Baltic Pipe pipeline between Norway and Poland received its first direct deliveries of Norwegian gas – Danish terminal started operations following delays ~enviro energy Link 6 votes
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson ~books fiction.crime Link 4 votes
Denmark is using Patient Reported Outcome questionnaires to improve medical care – can the patient's perception of the disease become part of the treatment? ~health healthcare Article 540 words 4 votes
An averted terrorist plot and recent shootings in Reykjavík have put guns in Iceland in the spotlight ~life Article 947 words 5 votes
Norway's digital currency experiment – what is it and how does it work? ~finance Article 802 words 6 votes
Protesters that gathered to demonstrate against the death of Mahsa Amini attempted to enter the Iranian Embassy in Oslo, leading to scores of arrests ~news norway.oslo crime iran iraq.kurdistan Article 262 words 5 votes
Russia's war in Ukraine has forever changed Europe's energy landscape – Norway finds itself at the forefront of an energy crisis ~enviro energy Article 697 words 4 votes
Norway-Poland gas pipeline opens in key move to cut dependency on Russia – could be at full capacity a month early due to good progress on work in Denmark ~enviro energy Article 749 words 13 votes
Heart Aerospace's current project is a thirty-passenger plane designed to have a fully battery-powered range of 200 kilometres ~transport Link 4 votes
Finnish utility Fortum plans to add 560 megawatt capacity by reactivating an idle coal-fired power plant on Finland's west coast ~enviro energy Link 7 votes
Indigenous Sámi cinema meets a global audience – transformation of the Nordic Pavilion into the “Sámi Pavilion” at this year's Venice Biennale ~movies Article 1313 words 5 votes
Two Swedish filmmakers have been found guilty of illegally disturbing the MS Estonia ferry, which sank in 1994 killing 852 people ~tv Article 399 words 6 votes
Film productions from around the world are eager to capture Iceland's dramatic landscapes – and to take advantage of an attractive incentive scheme ~movies Article 826 words 3 votes
Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest ~enviro pollution Article 1207 words, published Jul 26 2022 6 votes