Sweden's secret to wellbeing? Known as koloniträdgårdar, tiny urban gardens provide city dwellers access to nature, fresh produce and community. ~hobbies gardening Article 18 votes
Finland's deep affinity with nature is blossoming in its restaurants, where a new generation of chefs are fusing local wild produce with more exotic flavours ~food restaurants Article 1304 words 18 votes
Delightfully irreverent Underdogs isn’t your parents’ nature docuseries ~tv reviews Article 422 words 11 votes
Ungdomsøen, an island fort in the Øresund strait, lets stressed Danish students unplug from distractions and study in nature ~life education.higher Article 1361 words 12 votes
Coolcations in destinations such as Norway, Iceland and Finland are expected to continue seeing a boom this summer – but could they cause overtourism in the Nordics? ~travel Article 1044 words 9 votes
With new flight routes, it's easier than ever to immerse yourself in the adventurous, natural wonder of Greenland ~travel Article 75 words 7 votes
My stay at a Swedish eco-retreat was blissful. What's emerged about it since points to a much darker truth. ~travel Article 867 words 22 votes
Record-breaking wildfires in the Western US (2020) reduced solar radiation by up to 70%, darkening skies and lowering temperatures by 5°C ~enviro Article 10 votes
For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe ~enviro Article 1132 words 21 votes
There's more to Iceland than Reykjavík – this more remote part of the island offers visitors a deep dive into its fascinating history and authentic culture ~travel Article 867 words 7 votes
Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’ ~enviro water energy.renewable conservation Article 649 words 8 votes
Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms) ~science mathematics Article 3485 words 31 votes
Netflix documentary about oceans and endangered species narrated by Barack Obama ~tv reviews Article 679 words 16 votes
Better know a bird: The wild and kinky mating rituals of the crested auklet ~science biology Article 1065 words, published Jun 26 2017 16 votes
Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it ~arts art painting Article 1991 words, published Sep 30 2024 5 votes
Norway is shying away from tourism – and other countries could learn from it ~travel Article 1097 words 13 votes
Greenhouse gas emissions in US beef production can be reduced by up to 30% with the adoption of selected mitigation measures ~enviro Article 18 votes
Dogs with bags of native wildflower seeds are helping rewild English nature reserve ~enviro Article 735 words, published Aug 7 2024 23 votes
The Danish lakelands of the Jutland peninsula unfurl like giant droplets in a region ripe for kayaking, wild swimming and languid summer walks ~travel Article 1296 words 5 votes
Set in an otherworldly landscape surrounded by glaciers, forests and lakes – how the Arctic town of Bodø became Europe's Capital of Culture ~travel Article 1573 words 4 votes
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy ~tech Article 8513 words 17 votes
'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement ~enviro Article 617 words, published May 23 2024 25 votes
Landmark UK study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss ~enviro conservation climate change Article 928 words, published Apr 25 2024 17 votes
GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration ~enviro Article 31 votes
Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in twenty years ~science Article 718 words 7 votes
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? ~health.mental Article 1140 words 28 votes
Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it (in mice) ~science Article 832 words, published Mar 27 2024 19 votes
A nationwide epidemiological study on the associations between ambient particulate matter and suicide in Finland ~health.mental Article 236 words 9 votes
Argentina president Javier Milei’s actions after taking office have research institutions facing shutdown. Scientists protest. ~science Article 881 words 18 votes
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet: An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge ~science Article 643 words 26 votes
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery ~science Article 1627 words 43 votes
Norway's decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists ~enviro Article 849 words 14 votes
What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything ~science psychology Video 27:19 32 votes
What's the thinking out there on the fusion news that has been coming out? ~science Article 1083 words, published Dec 15 2023 8 votes
The site of a mining town on Svalbard is now being returned to nature in one of Norway's biggest-ever restoration projects ~enviro Video 3:50, published Oct 30 2023 4 votes
In Indonesia, humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it? ~humanities.history Article 12 votes
A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely ~space Article 1614 words, published Oct 16 2023 9 votes
Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue (in the lab) ~science biology Article 445 words, published Nov 30 2023 15 votes
The achievement of gender parity in a large astrophysics research centre ~science physics.astro astronomy Article 5569 words, published Nov 16 2023 7 votes
Vast, desolate and magically odd – what is it about Iceland that makes musicians so desperate to record there? ~music Article 1432 words 3 votes