For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
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The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death
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Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's risk for ill health and how governments are responding
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Trying cocktails from the USSR
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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Meredith Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its government amend existing legislation essentially mandating the end of end-to-end encryption
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American demand for weight-loss drugs is supercharging Denmark's economy and transforming a small Danish community into an unlikely boomtown
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The birth and glory of Swedish computers
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Has Iceland found the antidote to toxic ‘girlboss’ feminism – concept of ‘konur eru konum bestar’ is everywhere, including the female-led coalition government
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Sweden's Supreme Court rules that climate activist Greta Thunberg's legal challenge against the state for insufficient climate action is inadmissible
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Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
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Some residents say they were in the dark as Los Angeles fires spread with no evacuation order
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Is Colorado's EV incentive worth it?
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The curse of the household analogy regarding UK government spending
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Eighteen months after Maui wildfires destroyed over 2,000 homes, only three have been rebuilt
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Iceland is crowdsourcing ideas from the population on budget savings to ensure taxpayer money is well spent
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Families of the more than 120 men killed when the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig capsized in 1980 were failed by official investigations in Norway, a new study has concluded
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Andøya Spaceport is centrepiece in the Technology Safeguards Agreement signed by US and Norwegian authorities
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New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
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Supreme Court seems ready to back Texas law limiting access to pornography
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Texas sues Allstate Insurance over its collection of driver data
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The US government stopped enforcing Robinson-Patman and destroyed independent grocery stores
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California fire facts
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In 2023 the Danish city of Aarhus launched a three-year trial project to curb the number of disposable coffee cups – more than 700,000 were returned last year
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Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction – drop in decibels is welcome side-effect of goal to keep city-managed construction projects free from toxic emissions
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What robotaxis brought San Francisco
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Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
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These two cities used to be the same - London, ON vs Utrecht and difference between their infrastructural development
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Massachusetts bill could fully legalize kei cars and override RMV ban
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New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny insurance claims
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California will require insurance companies to offer coverage in wildfire zones
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Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South
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More liquor stores in Oakland California are selling produce, thanks to Saba Grocers and City tax initiative (2021)
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
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US President Joe Biden administration grants California waiver to ban gas car sales in 2035
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$10 billion in government loans announced for United States EV charging network, battery production
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Why Elon Musk doesn’t have access to SpaceX’s biggest US government secrets
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In a first, Arizona’s attorney general sues an industrial farm over its water use
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As tourists discover Finland's Santa Claus Village, some locals call for rules to control the masses
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Costs from hurricane Helene more than $53 billion in North Carolina. Currently available funding is significantly less than that.
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The women of the West are making political history — and have been for 130 years
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Trans refugees turn to TikTok and Instagram for help fleeing red states
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Iceland has authorised whale hunting for the next five years, despite welfare concerns
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Oregon, USA introduces new statewide recycling rules to combat plastic waste
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Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy, in $1 billion Sony v. Cox case
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In Northeast D.C., a rancorous post-election fight erupts — over bike lanes
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Scrapped policy to charge London’s drivers by the mile
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US awards $1.5 billion in grants to improve passenger rail along Northeast Corridor
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After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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