Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions ~enviro climate change Article 679 words 8 votes
Whale meat has seen an increase in sales this year in Norway – according to local whalers, demand has outstripped supply for the first time in half a decade ~food meat Article 1091 words 10 votes
Anders Behring Breivik now wants to be released on probation – he is also planning a new lawsuit against the state for violating his human rights ~news norway Article 363 words 9 votes
Norway arrests suspect linked to 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant in Paris – man held on European arrest warrant issued by French authorities over attack in which six people died ~news norway crime palestine france.paris Article 480 words 7 votes
Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales ~enviro conservation Article 576 words 6 votes
Twenty-five people have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending an illegal rave in a bunker in the Norwegian capital, Oslo ~health Article 189 words 9 votes
Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago ~humanities.history Article 688 words 5 votes
Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts ~enviro climate change Article 237 words 10 votes
Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia ~enviro Article 775 words 6 votes
Spectacular new step-bridge floats over Norwegian waterfall Vøringsfossen – the project, designed by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, has been over a decade in the making ~design architecture Article 483 words 10 votes
Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three ~games.tabletop Article 670 words 9 votes
Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time ~books libraries Article 817 words 10 votes
Norway's wealth fund loses £16bn in first half of 2020 after Covid panic – state support has restored investor confidence but fund expects more market turmoil ~finance economics Article 551 words 7 votes
Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation ~tech Article 1762 words 12 votes
Kurt Maflin hopes his shock World Snooker Championship triumph in the first round will have Norwegian children swapping ski slopes for snooker cues ~sports Article 593 words 5 votes
Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard ~health Article 440 words 11 votes
Owners of a US B&B have removed a Norwegian flag from outside their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought it was a Confederate flag ~news norway usa.mi.st johns Article 306 words 17 votes
Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso ~design architecture Article 435 words 5 votes
A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition ~music Article 381 words 6 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
One woman, four men bound for the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on a four-month expedition that covered more than 4,500 miles ~life Article 2630 words 5 votes
GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic ~tech Article 1068 words 6 votes
What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course ~science biology Article 1331 words 6 votes
Asylum seekers persecuted for being LGBT+ will be given priority under groundbreaking Norwegian scheme ~lgbt Link 11 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns ~health Article 499 words 9 votes
Norway should add a number of restrictions to the kinds of weapons its $1 trillion wealth fund is allowed to invest in, a government-appointed commission said ~finance business Article 6 votes
A Norwegian court has sentenced a gunman to twenty-one years in prison for killing his teenage step-sister and opening fire at a mosque ~news norway.oslo crime Article 219 words 9 votes
What to do when you're stranded in Alaska by a global pandemic and are trying to get back home to Norway – with twenty-four dogs in tow ~sports Article 5 votes
Philip Manshaus's trial raises important questions about the role of freedom of speech in enabling far-right extremism ~life Article 1247 words 5 votes
Magnus Carlsen: ‘My emotions are usually outside my body and that's not what you usually connect to a chess player’ ~games.tabletop Article 7 votes
Norway terror attack – prosecutors demand twenty-one year jail sentence for mosque shooting ~news norway.oslo crime Article 317 words 6 votes
Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow ~arts art painting Article 753 words 7 votes
At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband ~news norway.oslo crime Article 7 votes
Australia joins ‘first movers’ group of nations that have kept coronavirus under control ~health Article 813 words 6 votes
Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period ~humanities.history Article 2742 words 7 votes
A major project to transport natural gas from the North Sea to Denmark and Poland has taken a significant step forward ~enviro energy Link 5 votes
Norway will slash its oil output from June to December of 2020 – the first time in eighteen years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices ~finance business Article 122 words 9 votes
About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece ~science Article 1001 words 8 votes
Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone ~enviro climate change Article 715 words 5 votes
Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel ~news united kingdom.sheffield norway Article 262 words 17 votes
Diamond League plans to stage a behind-closed doors athletics exhibition event in Norway in June after two meetings were called off due to the coronavirus ~sports Article 233 words 5 votes
Norway has topped Reporters Without Borders' annual press freedom index for the fourth consecutive year ~news norway journalism Article 446 words 8 votes
Norwegian Air reported that four Swedish and Danish subsidiaries had filed for bankruptcy – 4,700 pilots and cabin crew members would be affected ~transport Article 405 words 4 votes
The outgoing chief executive of Norway's sovereign wealth fund faces probe after luxury jet use ~finance Article 4 votes
Norway and the a-ha moment that made electric cars the answer – a country fuelled by hydropower has become the world's electric vehicle leader ~enviro Article 1392 words 6 votes
Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard politics Article 302 words 4 votes