Finland set to become long-term nuclear waste dump
An experiment currently underway in Greenland is trying to learn about the effect of glaciers on bedrock. This project has been organised and funded b...
SecurStore excels in ISO 27001 certification
Securstore is a company that offers online data backup and recovery soloutions. The company recently excelled in the British Standards Institution Ass...
World Water Week summit held in Stockholm
For the past week, an international entourage of industry leaders, politicians, and officials from the United Nations have been meeting in Stockholm f...
Business innovation on the up in Iceland
Today, with the banks rather smaller than before, knowledge-based companies are again able to tap the talent which Iceland’s highly educated people ha...
Icelandic paramedic and CPR courses to be held in Palestine
The Paramedic Training School, Sjukraflutningaskolinn, and the Red Cross of Iceland, Raudi kross Islands, are planning to host a course in CPR for Pal...
Norway teams up with Russia to map Barents Sea
In a sign that Russia might not take an aggressively autonomous approach to staking its claim of the Arctic’s riches, it has been announced that Russi...
StatoilHydro in trouble for CO2 emissions
StatoilHydro, the gas and oil giant, has found itself in trouble with the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority over excessive CO2 emissions from its ...
Outer space phone call to Finnish President
The President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, received a phone call from the International Space Station on Monday. Astronaut Timothy L. Kopra initiated th...