Scottish company Gravitricity is using the Pyhäjärvi mine in Finland to build its first full-scale prototype gravity energy store ~enviro Article 513 words 14 votes
Finnish study finds that people from different cultures reported the same bodily sensations when listening to the same songs ~music Article 910 words 7 votes
Greta Thunberg and four other climate activists are due to appear in court today after being arrested at a protest outside a gathering of fossil fuel bosses in London ~enviro climate change Article 435 words 22 votes
Norway hit by hurricane-force winds – is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse? ~enviro climate change Link 12 votes
Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners ~finance business Article 978 words 10 votes
Food scientists at Finnish startup SuperGround have found a way to make chicken nuggets and fish cakes out of otherwise discarded bones and hard tissues ~food meat Article 959 words 28 votes
Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel ~enviro climate change Article 908 words 9 votes
UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes ~enviro energy.renewable Link 13 votes
Is it realistic to operate a fleet of electric buses in countries like Norway? Tackling challenges with the range of buses being shorter in cold weather. ~transport Article 714 words 8 votes
With one of the lowest rates of bullying in Europe, we speak to teachers, pupils and parents to find out how Denmark is managing to stamp out harassment in schools ~life education parenting Article 1225 words 17 votes
Finland and Italy seek to hinder restrictions on single-use packaging ahead of next week's gathering of EU ministers in Brussels ~enviro Article 599 words 11 votes
Denmark, Finland and Panama aim to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit – that will take giving nature a boost ~enviro climate change pollution Article 642 words 12 votes
Helsinki Airport clears runway snow in just eleven minutes – why do some airports cope better with snow than others? ~transport Article 1445 words 11 votes
Christmas beer made from green peas and marinated red cabbage has become a festive hit in Iceland ~food drinks.seasonal Article 384 words 9 votes
In the wake of substantial growth, Novo Nordisk's stock price climbs to near-peak levels – investors are asking whether the stock is now hovering in overvalued territory ~finance business Article 708 words 6 votes
Sweden's ‘living advent calendar’ tradition has spread to towns and villages across Europe ~life Article 787 words 12 votes
Denmark set to withdraw the 1,000 kroner note, its largest denomination, from circulation by May 2025 – just 10% of payments in stores are made in cash ~finance Article 233 words 26 votes
Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency as striking workers halted the delivery of licence plates of new vehicles manufactured by the US automaker ~transport Link 29 votes
Denmark is to restrict the sale of alcohol to under-eighteens and increase the price of suckable nicotine sachets, as their growing popularity is worrying health authorities ~health Article 284 words 31 votes
Site Zero recycling plant in the city of Motala should double the amount of plastic packaging being recycled in Sweden ~enviro recycling plastics Article 687 words 6 votes
Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities ~enviro Article 664 words 8 votes
Denmark topped a list of worst binge drinkers in a new health report from the OECD – Romania and the UK next worst offenders ~health Article 389 words 9 votes
Norway is among the countries with the most heat pumps per capita, along with neighbouring Finland and Sweden ~enviro energy climate change Article 793 words 25 votes
Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in extracting and sequencing RNA molecules from an extinct species, a century old Tasmanian tiger known as a thylacine ~science biology Article 321 words 16 votes
Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years. ~humanities.languages Article 382 words 18 votes
A vast northern European project is underway to combat isolation by promoting inclusion – we take a look at the results in Norway ~life Article 560 words 9 votes
Scientists at the Askö research base in Sweden are investigating a methane mystery – levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly and nobody is quite sure why ~enviro climate change Article 1102 words 11 votes
The boom of artificial intelligence chatbots prompted one Danish teacher to start incorporating it into the classroom, rather than blocking it ~tech Article 667 words 8 votes
Global demand for drinkable water is on the rise – Norwegian company Waterise is responding by desalinating the sea into clean, drinkable water ~enviro water.salt water.drinking Article 479 words 9 votes
Spain fines 'Big Four' consulting firms for 'marathon' working days ~finance business Article 704 words, published Sep 27 2023 13 votes
Why 'The Hobbit' is still underappreciated, eighty-six years later: A Culture Re-View ~books fiction Article 636 words 16 votes
This is the first crash test dummy modelled on the female body. Will it make cars safer for women? ~engineering Article 566 words 42 votes
Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike ~health healthcare Article 634 words, published Sep 18 2023 16 votes
'We are really struggling with space': Amsterdam pushes more cars off its streets but is it enough? ~transport Link 31 votes
Sweden's right-wing government says it will turn its back on plastic bag tax from November 2024 ~enviro pollution plastics Article 350 words 20 votes
Denmark launches the Laura Maersk, the first container ship to run entirely on green methanol – will save 2.75 million tonnes of CO2 per year ~transport Link 21 votes
Study shows some Swiss residents changed behavior in response to Fridays for Future youth protests inspired by Greta Thunberg ~enviro climate change Article 447 words, published Sep 10 2023 24 votes
What’s behind all the box office flops this year - and what lessons can Hollywood learn? ~movies Article 2195 words, published Aug 23 2023 30 votes
Three exceptionally talented dogs joined the Danish Chamber Orchestra for a very special performance of Mozart's "Hunting Symphony" at this year's Haydn Festival ~life.pets Article 203 words 14 votes
Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfire season ~enviro Article 944 words 12 votes
Applying taxes to beef products could be one way to reduce CO2 emissions, says the Danish Government ~food meat Article 361 words 26 votes
Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders ~life Article 348 words 5 votes
Supermarket in Finland is welcoming canine customers with specially-adapted carts which allow dog owners to bring their pooches grocery shopping ~life.pets Article 314 words 16 votes
Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border ~enviro Article 451 words 7 votes
Fifty years on, Swedish psychiatrists are now calling the infamous Stockholm syndrome a 'constructed concept' used to explain away the failures of the State ~health.mental Article 575 words 27 votes
The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard ~life Link 41 votes
Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms ~enviro Article 290 words 8 votes
On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum ~arts art painting Article 844 words 14 votes
From solo protest to global movement – five years of 'Fridays for Future' in pictures ~enviro climate change Article 668 words 3 votes