New LGBTQ+ plan presented by the Danish government includes a proposal to expand access to legal gender change to all children regardless of age ~lgbt transgender Link 4 votes
Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies ~finance business Article 1525 words 7 votes
Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products ~life.women Article 418 words 16 votes
Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours ~enviro Article 853 words 13 votes
World's fastest electric ship will set sail in Stockholm next year – Candela P-12 is a thirty-passenger 'flying ferry' that will reach speeds of thirty knots ~transport Article 849 words 6 votes
Finland intends to limit visas for Russian tourists – government has come under increased public and political pressure to close a perceived sanctions loophole ~travel Article 686 words 4 votes
Rogers CEO says service back online for most Canadian customers, blames outage on 'network system failure' ~tech internet Link 17 votes
Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law ~enviro pollution plastics.single use Article 23 votes
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - the city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong ~design urban planning Article 2042 words 10 votes
Joe Biden officials to keep private the names of US hospitals where patients contracted Covid ~health healthcare Article 875 words, published Jun 25 2022 4 votes
Danish commission has harshly criticized the country's government for its decision to cull millions of healthy mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic ~health Article 421 words 5 votes
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion ~health healthcare Article 1308 words 61 votes
Tour de France comes to Denmark – anticipation mounts in greatest cycling nation in the world for world's greatest cycling race ~sports Article 839 words 5 votes
UK government orders Julian Assange’s extradition; appeal planned ~news usa australia united kingdom journalism crime Article 679 words 9 votes
In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats ~life.pets Article 3921 words 7 votes
Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times. ~life education Article 926 words, published Jun 8 2022 24 votes
Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth ~lgbt transgender Article 630 words 18 votes
California imposes sweeping ban on pumping river water in San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area ~enviro Article 766 words 11 votes
Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history ~finance economics Article 698 words 4 votes
Californian critics blast Poseidon desalination plan as crucial vote looms ~enviro water.sea Article 2245 words, published Apr 26 2022 4 votes
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition ~tech internet Article 5 votes
'Unprecedented' water restrictions ordered for millions in Southern California ~enviro climate change Article 338 words 17 votes
British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant a licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever rocket launch ~space rocketry spaceflight.suborbital Article 1146 words 3 votes
Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools ~humanities.history Article 862 words 3 votes
What happened to the debts of conquered countries? ~humanities.history Video 6:59, published Oct 16 2020 6 votes
Four Canadian provinces push ahead with plan to build small nuclear reactors to supply power ~enviro Article 317 words 17 votes
Local school districts are caught in the middle of the culture wars as the right tries to gain control ~humanities Article 3554 words 10 votes
Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders state agencies to investigate gender-transitioning procedures as child abuse ~lgbt transgender Article 454 words 22 votes
UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi ~enviro pollution Article 514 words, published Nov 7 2017 2 votes
Furries are leading the war against a book-banning Mississippi Mayor ~books Article 1348 words 14 votes
A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly in Massachusetts ~transport Article 659 words 12 votes
Crow-plagued California city turns to lasers and boomboxes to clear the air ~science Article 746 words, published Jan 20 2022 12 votes
Burkina Faso's military seizes power in a coup, detains president and dissolves government ~news burkina faso politics Article 11 votes
Sweden has earmarked $661 million for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households cope with high electricity bills this winter ~finance Article 379 words 6 votes
Nebraska will spend $500M to claim South Platte River water from Colorado ~enviro Article 903 words 5 votes