How Denmark plans to roll out the world's first cow burp tax – government is investing billions in technologies to help farmers cut livestock emissions
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The country with Europe's most radical climate plan – an interview with Petteri Orpo, prime minister of Finland
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Sweden is to implement a nationwide mobile phone ban in all schools in an attempt to improve security and study conditions for students
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Sweden's health minister has urged the EU to push ahead with social media restrictions for kids while insisting it be treated as a pressing matter
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Reddit announces new limits on moderating large subreddits and for moderators to remove content sitewide
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US coffee prices surge
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In a concerted effort to improve previously poor cancer survival rates, Denmark's success story has caught the attention of UK policymakers
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Sweden's employment agency has been tracking the online locations of thousands of citizens claiming unemployment benefits in an effort to crack down on welfare fraud
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US health insurance premiums poised to spike over drug costs, tariff threats
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Bluesky will comply with age verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi
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EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine despite trade tensions with US
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Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
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Why Denmark's plan to speedrun the EU's new climate target is in trouble – bloc's biggest players want to delay a vote on the 2040 emissions-cutting milestone
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European Commission internally recommends Signal with disappearing messages
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Swedish financial technology company Klarna announces launch of its initial public offering, months after the firm paused its planned listing
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Deep in the Swedish forest lies one of Europe's hopes for a spaceport that can ultimately compete with the United States, China and Russia
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Six months into tariffs, US businesses have no idea how to price anything
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ReTuna shopping mall in Sweden is the first in the world to sell only secondhand and repurposed items – established in 2015, it's a municipality-led experiment in circular consumption
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Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion
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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign
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Gavin Newsom, California lawmakers strike deal that would allow Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize
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Donald Trump administration issues stop-work order for US offshore wind project
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Denmark has proposed scrapping its tax on chocolate, cake and other sweets, as well as coffee, to help consumers cope with high food prices
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US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B
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Sweden to build more nuclear plants with US or UK technology – Vattenfall says it will chose between GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce's small modular reactors
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Bluesky will block Mississippi IP addresses in response to its age assurance law
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Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis"
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AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP
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While Finnish students learn how to discern fact from fiction online, media literacy experts say AI-specific training should be guaranteed going forward
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The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Data-driven city planning helped.
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LinkedIn removes clear support for trans people
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US Supreme Court allows Mississippi social media age verification law to go into effect
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Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act verification rules
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Nvidia, AMD agree to pay US government 15% of AI chip sales to China
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Ørsted plans to raise $9bn in rights issue to shore up finances – world's biggest offshore wind developer has been battered by high interest rates and Donald Trump administration's opposition
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Donald Trump administration to boost US private equity with new 401(k) order
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Donald Trump administration proposes regulatory changes that threaten every unfinished wind project in the US
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Make electricity cheap again (part 1)
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After Steam, indie videogame store itch.io has also delisted erotic content
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US federal government ends information delivery contract critical to hurricane forecasting
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A contentious book argues that endless oil revenue and a sovereign wealth fund are making Norway increasingly bloated, unproductive and unhealthy
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Foreign couples flock to Denmark to get married. Copenhagen wants to save room for locals.
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China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer
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The End Kidney Deaths Act
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Why free buses in New York City could backfire horribly
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Early thoughts, but we have ~society, ~news, and ~enviro, but what if we were to consider ~policy? Legal policy, governmental law, environmental rules, guidelines, terms and conditions,...
Early thoughts, but we have ~society, ~news, and ~enviro, but what if we were to consider ~policy? Legal policy, governmental law, environmental rules, guidelines, terms and conditions, online/offline community policies, etc.
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Brought on by posting this article as I had to decide between where it would it be better to put this in: in ~tech? in ~society? in ~news?
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Malaysia no longer takes US plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California
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The obvious reason the US should not vaccinate like Denmark – it isn't Denmark
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In landmark opinion, World Court says countries must address climate change threat
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UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption
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