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....
Christiana residents lose vital court battle
The efforts of Denmark’s Parliament to take back control of the progressive enclave of Christiana and evict all its squatting residents have been uphe...
Norway opens first stretch of hydrogen highway
More than a dozen hydrogen-powered cars participated in a rally race of sorts to mark the opening of a 560-kilometre stretch of highway that is conven...