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
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