Norway to increase number of conscripted soldiers from 9,000 to 13,500 – Russia's attack on Ukraine has given northern European countries an impetus to beef up their militaries ~society politics Link 10 votes
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history. ~society politics Article 1097 words 7 votes
Novo Nordisk Foundation is entering into a partnership with Nvidia to establish a national AI research centre in Denmark – will be home to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers ~tech Article 458 words 5 votes
Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1083 words 23 votes
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably ~enviro sustainability Article 751 words 25 votes
AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death' ~tech Link 28 votes
On International Women's Day, Northern European countries stand out for women who are looking to develop their careers – Iceland secured the top spot ~life.women Article 606 words 3 votes
Meet Fríði Djurhuus, frontman of the Faroe Islands' first queer vegan punk band Joe & the Shitboys ~music Link 11 votes
Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups ~enviro Article 518 words, published Jan 25 2024 20 votes
World's longest-distance drone delivery – Norwegian start-up Aviant has expanded its drone delivery service in Lillehammer ~tech Article 361 words 3 votes
Nurses in Denmark shift to cosmetic care despite hospital staffing crisis – DSR believes shift is due to salary and working conditions ~health healthcare Article 457 words 23 votes
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
EU leaders approve €50 billion deal for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifts his veto ~news ukraine hungary politics Article 886 words 21 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
Iran has accused Swedish EU employee Johan Floderus of spying for Israel and "corruption on earth", a crime that carries the death penalty under Tehran's Islamic laws ~society politics Article 631 words 9 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
Russia's war in Ukraine and destabilising "hybrid warfare" actions on the eastern border put foreign and security policy top of the agenda in Finland's presidential election ~society politics Article 1687 words 8 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
Finland faces autumn of discontent with strikes and protests over government's austerity budget ~society politics Link 8 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
'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