This nine-seat plane takes off in fifty meters – Norway hopes it will connect people in remote areas ~transport Article 513 words 12 votes
How Ukraine is turning to renewables to keep heat and lights on ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1775 words 14 votes
Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains ~transport Article 627 words 41 votes
How Copenhagen built a metro for free by capturing land value to finance infrastructure ~transport Video 28:35 7 votes
Income tax will be dead within five years as AI jobs crisis grows, says Monzo founder ~tech Article 413 words 10 votes
Finnish transport minister Lulu Ranne says a long-delayed cross-border train to Sweden should begin rolling this summer ~transport Article 1649 words, published Apr 12 2026 9 votes
Students develop faux but sexy robotic sage grouse to strut their stuff in an effort to move a Grand Teton National Park breeding-ground lek away from jets ~science biology Article 1022 words, published Mar 24 2026 25 votes
Government-appointed Norwegian Nuclear Committee says no to nuclear power – should build up expertise that will make it easier to make such a decision in the future ~enviro Link 17 votes
Nearly half of the US data centers planned for 2026 are getting delayed or canceled because nobody stockpiled enough transformers and circuit breakers ~tech Article 410 words, published Apr 2 2026 49 votes
Norway has received far less snow than normal due to persistent high pressure near Greenland – hydropower production is therefore much lower than expected, as lack of snow depletes reservoirs ~enviro energy.renewable water.melt Article 1419 words 14 votes
Balcony solar is spreading across the US ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1314 words, published Mar 29 2026 25 votes
UK government blocks Chinese firm’s plans to build wind turbines in Scotland ~enviro energy.renewable Article 566 words, published Mar 26 2026 13 votes
Norway and Iceland have signed agreements to participate in the European Union's GOVSATCOM and IRIS2 secure communications programmes ~space satellites Article 355 words, published Mar 26 2026 12 votes
Los Angeles Metro approves major rail route expansion into West Hollywood after last-minute deal ~transport Article 1690 words 17 votes
While crematoriums generate only a small portion of district heating in Danish cities, this sustainability strategy of “waste heat recapture” is saving cities money on their heating bills ~enviro energy sustainability Article 1366 words 11 votes
Britain mandates heat pumps and solar panels in new homes from 2028 ~enviro energy.renewable Article 64 votes
The spread of solar panels in rural areas has become a divisive issue among Danish voters ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1025 words 19 votes
"I started growing lettuce in a spare server cabinet. This is, for many reasons, a terrible idea. Here's how I did it." ~tech Article 1319 words 55 votes
Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in an Icelandic experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites. Some called it crazy, but it worked. ~enviro energy Article 17 votes
Researchers in Copenhagen are actively monitoring bat activity and traffic conditions along a road to evaluate how red-spectrum LEDs from street lights affect local wildlife ~enviro pollution.light Article 423 words, published Mar 2 2026 11 votes
Two Amazon Web Services Middle East availability zones down after data centre fires ~tech amazon.web services Article 422 words 15 votes
Texans love Big Bend for its wildness. Donald Trump wants to put a wall through it. ~enviro conservation Link 16 votes
Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water ~enviro water.ground water.rain Article 1107 words 13 votes
Why are American passenger trains slow? ~transport Article 4739 words, published Feb 20 2026 21 votes
Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north – Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up ~space rocketry Article 144 words 6 votes
Stockholm's metro stations really do look this cool in person – let me show you what I saw while visiting the city ~transport Video 22:44 7 votes
The tiny details in Red Dead Redemption 2 you weren't meant to notice ~games Video 13:44, published Feb 6 2026 14 votes
Finnish nuclear development group Steady Energy has begun building a pilot plant in Helsinki that aims to pave the way for Europe's first small nuclear heat reactor ~enviro energy Article 13 votes
Europe's most powerful rocket launches for first time, carrying thirty-two Amazon internet satellites to orbit ~space rocketry satellites Link 20 votes
Finland opens Europe's first lithium mine – will create about 350 jobs and offers Europe's only production chain of its kind, reducing reliance on Chinese imports ~tech Article 567 words 15 votes
New Bay Area Rapid Transit fare gates generate $10 million annually ~transport Article 706 words 13 votes
US judge allows last of five offshore wind projects halted by Donald Trump to proceed ~enviro energy.renewable Article 395 words 42 votes
Finland is leading the race to decarbonise industrial heat emissions, using sand to produce fossil-free steam ~enviro energy.renewable Article 406 words 12 votes
How Norway accomplished a near-total electric vehicle transition – almost 100 percent of new cars registered in November were electric ~transport Article 563 words, published Jan 27 2026 27 votes
Greensand Future plan to pump thousands of tonnes of climate-warming CO2 into an old oil field 250km from Denmark's west coast ~enviro climate change Article 60 words 7 votes