Norway calls off whale hunt this year
Norway’s main fish sales group has decided to call off the annual whale hunt along the country’s coasts this year due to a low demand for whale meat. ...
Electric minibuses hit the streets of Copenhagen
A flashy new fleet of bright yellow electric minibuses has hit the narrow inner streets of Copenhagen to provide an eco-friendly form of transport in ...
Midsummer Day brings usual mix of fun and violence
In Finland, the weather was soggy, grey and chilly for the Midsummer Day festivities. This apparently dampened the enthusiasm of boaters both at sea a...
Norway home to world’s first floating wind turbine
The Norwegian-based energy giant, Statoil, has opened the lines on the world’s first floating wind turbine off the coast of Norway. The water-based su...
Sweden ready for world’s first permanent nuclear waste dump
Half a kilometre beneath the Swedish town of Oskarshamn is the Aespoe Hard Rock Laboratory, an underground maze of tunnels running four kilometres thr...
Danes’ two polls: one for change one for none
Last weekend’s referendum concerning an amendment to the Danish constitution on royal succession resulted in a majority vote for adopting absolute pri...
Copenhagen district to get ‘international’ park
Copenhagen’s Norrebro district is well known as one of the city’s great melting pots of culture and ethnicity, and it’s this global diversity that wil...
Norway claims overfishing in Barents Sea greatly reduced
Illegal fishing activity in the Barents Sea appears to have been greatly reduced thanks to the joint efforts of the Norwegian and Russian governments....