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Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion
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Data centers don't raise people's water bills
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US federal government ends information delivery contract critical to hurricane forecasting
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Air pollution raises risk of dementia, say Cambridge scientists
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Malaysia no longer takes US plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California
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What Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels
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Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim.
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Denmark wants to champion the EU's beleaguered green deal in its presidency. But convincing other states won't be easy.
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Why America built a forest from Canada to Texas
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How sewage recycling works
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Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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Most new cars in Norway are EVs – how a freezing country beat range anxiety
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US Supreme Court narrows scope of National Environmental Policy Act review
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Four former Volkswagen managers found guilty in German emissions trial
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How one company secretly poisoned the planet
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
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How redefining just one word could strip the US Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat - short deadline to comment
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World's first commercial-scale e-methanol plant begins operations in Denmark – Maersk set to buy part of the production as a low-emission fuel for its fleet of container ships
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Nearly 70% of Swedish territory is covered by forests, with half belonging to the private sector – what does that mean for the nation's economic and environmental ambitions
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Entrepreneurs are hauling bergs from the Arctic island of Greenland, betting there are enough people willing to pay up for an extra-chilled drink
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"Quit your useless job" with Rutger Bregman - Adam Conover podcast
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How To Do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy | Jenny Odell
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Norway's capital is known for its green policies and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Why does the city still struggle with air pollution?
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My stay at a Swedish eco-retreat was blissful. What's emerged about it since points to a much darker truth.
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Companies keen to start deep-sea mining off Norway – despite delays that will now see the first licences awarded, a year later than planned, in 2026
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Temporary 3D printed structures transform into a forest after use at Expo 2025 Osaka
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Gothenburg fined for missing an environmental target – was one of the first local governments in the world to take out a "sustainability linked loan"
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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Five of six Greenlandic political parties support reconsidering fossil fuel ban, with only Inuit Ataqatigiit maintaining strong opposition
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Back to the future: China revives blimps, now fully electric
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Sociogenomics, a new scientific field is changing the understanding of how and why people develop the specific ways that they do
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Norway will allow cities to introduce zero-emissions zones, as the number of electric cars on the road in the biggest urban centers passes 40%
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Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement.
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For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
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The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death
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As global leaders, Canada and Norway's co-operation is timely in the face of surging energy demand
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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How balcony solar is taking off
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Woodkid - Goliath (2020)
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Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
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Ryanair pulls out of two Danish airports blaming harmful tax – airline says passenger tax will make country's regional airports hopelessly uncompetitive compared to others in EU
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Using ChatGPT consumes a 500 ml bottle of water; so what?
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Denmark will ramp up inspections of ships transporting Russian oil through its narrow straits, in an effort to protect the environment and maritime safety from older vessels in Moscow's shadow fleet
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Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
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Donald Trump signs actions to pull US out of Paris climate agreement, intends to promote fossil fuels and mineral mining
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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
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In 2023 the Danish city of Aarhus launched a three-year trial project to curb the number of disposable coffee cups – more than 700,000 were returned last year
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Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
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