Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour – meet the women training for war with Russia
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Finland exports snow-saving mats to ski resorts hit by climate crisis – preserving previous year's snow for start of season can combat increasingly unpredictable winters
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Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target
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Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains”
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Iceland's famous music venues swallowed by tourism – thriving music scene that gave world Björk, Sigur Rós and Ólafur Arnald under threat from Reykjavík's popularity
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Satu Rämö has caused a publishing sensation across Europe – all thanks to her novels about Hildur, a mindful cop who solves murders with her needle-clacking sidekick
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Eleven on trial in Sweden's largest environmental crime case – Bella Nilsson's company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste
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Initiative to extol benefits of allemannsretten, Norway's “right to roam”, to international tourists has met with strong criticism – tourism campaign shelved over environmental fears
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Why have salmon deserted Norway's rivers? Salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish's future.
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Fehmarn Belt tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
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Mayor of Oslo warns that drug smugglers are increasingly targeting the Norwegian capital as a gateway to Europe as authorities tighten controls on major ports such as Antwerp
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Johan Röhr's 2,700 songs have been streamed 15bn times – Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
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European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
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Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
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Finland used to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world – how the country halved it and saved countless lives
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Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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In most of the Western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it's going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Reindeer noir, the Finnish crime sub-genre influenced by Santa's home town of Rovaniemi
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Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden
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Denmark's largest trade union has joined strike action by Swedish Tesla workers, piling pressure on the US electric car company to agree to collective bargaining rights
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Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
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Sweden's schools minister Lotta Edholm aims to limit the profit-making ability of friskolor/free schools in her plans for education reform
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At the Icelandic home of Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir, foraged material like seaweed is turned into masks, clothing and even shoes
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PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence
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Finland faces growing Russian online threat, Finnish security services say – espionage attempts have increased since Ukraine invasion
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Life on Europe's only open Schengen border with Russia – in the Barents Sea, Russia maintains cordial relations with NATO neighbours over fishing rights
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Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions – Swedish study proposes government commission more research into environmental benefits of cattle feed additives
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Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state
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Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence
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Sweden's minority-run coalition announced on Wednesday it would be cutting funding for climate and environmental measures next year
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Two former executives of a Swedish oil company have gone on trial in Stockholm, accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan
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Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime
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The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
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Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government's plan to build at least ten nuclear reactors in the next twenty years
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Landslides, a stranded town and two deaths so far reported as extreme weather sweeps across southern Norway
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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Global heating helps turns icy Sweden into unique wine-making territory – vineyards have expanded by 50% in the last two years
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People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
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Swedish fuel retailers required to display eco-labels at pumps – colour-coded labels will show buyers the percentage of renewables and fossil raw materials
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