Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1m prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change
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Work has begun on Viking Link, the world's longest electricity interconnector which will allow power to travel between the UK and Denmark
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Tree ring records show increase in extreme weather in South America
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Germany bans range of single-use plastics including straws and cotton buds
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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea near Stockholm, global body says
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Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms
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Denmark should end all future oil and gas exploration in the North Sea – it hurts Denmark's ambition as a front-runner in the fight against climate change
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Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014
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Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close
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Mexico finds 15,000 turtles in crates bound for China
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Eleven percent rise in threatened Swedish species over the past five years, according to the latest report from SLU, the Swedish Species Information Centre
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland
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Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away
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Denmark needs to adopt a number of emergency measures, including higher carbon taxes, if it's to reach a goal of drastically cutting emissions by 2030
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Alphabet launches Tidal, a moonshot to save the world's oceans
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Police are warning parents a Bristol protest Greta Thunberg is due to join has 'grown so large' it is unlikely usual safety measures will be adequate
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Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to address climate change
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Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling
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Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
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Stockholm street just became the first in Sweden to ban old diesel cars – 4,000 of the 24,000 cars that use Hornsgatan every day will now be forced to take a detour
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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Norway's Equinor plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its domestic operations by 40% this decade and to near zero by 2050
6 votes -
How big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? Interactive map
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Australian government deploys army reservists, third navy ship to support firefighters
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Denmark sources record 47% of power from wind in 2019 – boosted by steep cost reductions and improved offshore technology
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Firefighters in Australia say situation 'out of control' as Prime Minister denies request for emergency aid
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Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes
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Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme
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Mapping the Australian fires
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Former NSW Fire chief frustrated at Govt for 'sweeping climate change under the rug'
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Nordic Council – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award
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More than 100 tons of manure from 370 horses at the Helsinki International Horse Show was used to create 150 megawatt hours of energy
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Survival by degrees: 389 bird species on the brink
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Svensk Vindenergi – Sweden is set to have more wind power capacity than nuclear this year
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Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower
9 votes -
What's Copenhagen's magic formula to reduce CO2 levels?
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California is banning the tiny bottles of shampoo in hotels
11 votes -
Europe's top court has upheld the strict protection that EU law offers to Finnish wolves and other species
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Norway's fifth and newest Unicef ambassador is 15-year-old Penelope Lea – the second-youngest ambassador of all time and the first climate activist to be chosen
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The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
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Denmark to retire its last four circus elephants
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht
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Finland should stop using soya as animal feed by 2025 says the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
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Scandinavia's biggest offshore wind farm is officially open
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Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
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Norway stops Amazon fund contribution in dispute with Brazil
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The Finnish Environment Institute Syke is developing drone imaging and mapping to detect invasive species
4 votes