Oil and gas emissions down in Norway
Emissions from the petroleum industry declined in Norway during 2009. According to reports from the operating companies; volatile hydrocarbons, carbon...
Damien Rice Inspires Iceland with upcoming concert
Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice is amongst the line-up for the monumental ‘Iceland Inspires’ concert, which is being held tomorrow evening close b...
Finland’s forests working hard as carbon sink
Finland’s forests are absorbing double the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they were 20 years ago. Wooded areas in the country can n...
Whaling compromise not on the cards
An attempt to agree on a compromise between whaling nations and their opponents has failed. The Two days of private discussion were held by the Intern...
Test drilling given the go-ahead in Greenland
Cairn Energy is to begin drilling in Baffin Bay after being given the green light for tests from Greenland’s government. According to KNR, company shi...
School torched in Stockholm riots
A school was burnt down in Stockholm after three nights of disturbances in the Swedish capital. Stones were also thrown at police by a group of around...
Stoltenberg succeeds Gordon Brown as UN climate group co-chair
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will assume the role of co-chair of a United Nations climate change focus group. Stoltenberg takes over...
The View from Here, No. 5
The fifth in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: ‘New Orleans’, in which Chay revisits the city of his birth; still bearing the a...