ReTuna shopping mall in Sweden is the first in the world to sell only secondhand and repurposed items – established in 2015, it's a municipality-led experiment in circular consumption
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Sweden to build more nuclear plants with US or UK technology – Vattenfall says it will chose between GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce's small modular reactors
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Norway eyes 200-250 MW floating nuclear reactors to power industry and cut emissions – expected to supply electricity to nearby offshore platforms and feed power into the onshore grid
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In Norway's far north, members of the Sámi minority and environmental activists are trying to block the construction of a copper mine
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Norway's Northern Lights project is seen as a model for efforts to pump carbon dioxide deep into wells, but high costs remain an obstacle
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Steel reinvented: inside the world’s first plant to burn no fossil fuels [tour]
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Norwegian town of Ulefoss sits on top of a rare earth deposit – the reserves could help to reduce the EU's dependency on China for the elements needed in tech such as phones
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Finnish startup Polar Night Energy has announced its industrial-scale sand battery, the world's largest of its kind, is now operational
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Meta signs twenty-year nuclear energy deal with Constellation Energy
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Denmark's largest energy community is now under construction, featuring more than 30,000 sqm of solar rooftops with a total capacity of about 4 MW
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Sweden's recycling centres overflowing with clothes after EU-wide ban on throwing away textiles – municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take responsibility
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Sweden passes bill on providing state aid to companies that want to invest in new nuclear reactors – new law will enter into force later this year
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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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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xAI is running generators without pollution controls in Memphis
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New study attributes nine trillion dollars of climate change related damages to just five companies, and outlines how they could be held accountable for specific local damages
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Iceland's largest whaling company Hvalur will not be hunting this season – second consecutive year the company has opted out
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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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Finnish utility Fortum focusing on renewable energy and nuclear lifetime extensions to cover growing electricity demand
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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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Global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast
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Norwegian energy giant Equinor is halving investment in renewable energy over the next two years while increasing oil and gas production
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Chinese solar firms go where US tariffs don't reach
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Joint venture between Germany's Uniper and Blykalla has started work on a test reactor in Sweden – latest sign nation's nuclear renaissance is gathering pace
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Sionic Energy unveils 100% silicon anode battery with high energy density
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In a first, Arizona’s attorney general sues an industrial farm over its water use
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Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres
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How guayule, a small shrub, could help the US rubber industry
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Google signs deal with nuclear company as data center power demand surges
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In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
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Norway's national football stadium has the world's largest vertical solar roof – new solution for northern regions, yielding 20% more energy than traditional panels
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Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide.
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Ken Newcombe, ex-CEO of C-Quest Capital, faces criminal charges for multi-year carbon credit fraud
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Southern Water, serving 4.7mn UK customers, in discussions with private supplier to tanker water from Norwegian fjords to mitigate against potential supply shortages and drought
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Constellation to restart Three Mile Island unit, powering Microsoft
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Heat-treated seeds could offer farmers a chemical-free solution for pest control – following success in Sweden and Norway, ThermoSeed looks to expansion into Asia
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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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Finland's Fortum starts using US nuclear fuel in bid to reduce Russian dependence
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Cache Energy’s mysterious white pellets could help kill coal and natural gas
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Three Danish energy tech firms have opened the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, capable of producing 5,000 tons per year
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AI tech giants hide dirty energy with outdated carbon accounting rules
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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project – news follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge
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IKEA has been accused of contributing to the rapid deterioration of Romania's biologically rich forests – campaigners say suppliers benefitting from corrupt environment in the country
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Danish insect farm sets sights on feeding Europe's livestock – Enorm intends to produce more than 10,000 tonnes of insect meal and oil a year
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Europe's gas supply once again hinges on one company – Equinor now plays an outsized role in the ups and downs of the continent's gas prices
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Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend
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They grow your berries and peaches, but often lack one item: insurance
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Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
23 votes