Study suggests pylons and wires that stretch across many landscapes are having a worldwide impact on wildlife Power lines are seen as glowing and flashing bands across the sky by many animals, research has revealed. The work suggests that the pylons and wires that stretch across many landscapes are having a worldwide impact on wildlife. Scientists knew many creatures avoid power lines but the reason...
Scandinavian countries are some of the world's happiest places to live. How is this impacting their social sector? "We have a word for social entrepreneurs in Sweden. They're called 'Stipsters' – it means a startup hipster," says Johan Wendt, the entrepreneur behind world-leading Scandinavian social enterprise Mattecentrum . Recently highlighted in Channel 4's series Scandimania as being the happiest...
s annual summer camp – were facilitating the "Islamisation of Norway". The jury for the competition, who reached a unanimous decision, included representatives of the Labour party and victim support groups. Dahlberg beat 300 other entries, including former Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller . Two memorials will be unveiled on 22 July 2015 – the fourth anniversary of the attacks – with the amphitheatre...
s airlines eager to cut crew costs – is life as a flight attendant getting worse? As a British Airways flight attendant with a quarter-century of service, John (not his real name) has a regular schedule. He can decide the type of flights he wants to work on: he's opted for the short-haul fleet. He can decide when he wants to be on holidays. "I'd love to stay until I'm 60," he says. But during John's...
s Ark of 20,000 plant species will unload this week at a remote Arctic port to deposit humanity's latest insurance payment against an agricultural apocalypse or a man-made cock-up. Brazilian beans and Japanese barley are among the botanical varieties that are carried aboard the ship that is shortly expected to dock near the Svalbard global seed vault , that celebrates its sixth anniversary this week....
Association of diplomats considers criticising the giving of posts to donors who had little or no knowledge about assigned countries Dan Roberts ...
Spectacular northern lights timelapse footage turns the sky bright green above Norway ...
Luke Mansillo: The mining boom has resulted in a huge extraction of wealth. But while Norway has been prudent with its resource bounty, turning it into a fund for future generations, Australia has not Luke Mansillo ...
s worst heroin overdose rate to trial Naloxone spray in Oslo and Bergen, its two most populous cities Norway is poised to start trials of a nasal spray that reverses the effect of a heroin overdose, in a move that could encourage other countries to follow suit. Despite its oil wealth, well-funded drug rehabilitation programmes and generous welfare safety net, Norway has western Europe's worst overdose...
s actions have led to a 'more stable and peaceful world order' Two Norwegian politicians say they have jointly nominated the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel peace prize. The Socialist Left party politicians Baard Vegar Solhjell, a former environment minister, and Snorre Valen said the public debate and policy changes in the wake of Snowden...
s traffic jams are becoming the cleanest and quietest in the world due to a flood of drivers buying electric cars which now power around the country's cities on hydro-electricity, competing for free charging points. For three months at the end of 2013, the luxury electric sports car the Tesla Model S and Nissan Leaf family electric car were the best-selling models among all cars sold in the country,...
s Eurovision song contest, with a song inspired by his three-year struggle to recover. Mohamed "Mo" Abdi Farah, 21, was on the point of a pop breakthrough in the summer of 2011, after winning the nation's heart with his performances in the country's X Factor talent show. But that July he witnessed the brutal attack mounted by the far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Abdi has since been on disability...
s happiness, its restaurants, or TV dramas; Sweden's gender equality, crime novels and retail giants; Finland's schools; Norway's oil wealth and weird songs about foxes; or Iceland's bounce-back from the financial abyss, we have an insatiable appetite for positive Nordic news stories. After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting...
s Better Together campaign may be well ahead in the polls, but it is under fire from critics who say its message of doom and gloom is failing to inspire even the most ardent unionist with a positive vision of the country's future inside the UK. In contrast, the alternative destinies being mooted by the campaign for an independent Scotland are vivid and appealing. They include the recurring theme of...
s supervisor, Arne Andreas Rød, said he was surprised to hear the sale of whale meat was "meant to be illegal here". He claimed his team had been able to take the food through customs without problem. "We wanted to showcase Norway's variety," he told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. The meat is illegal in Germany and the majority of the EU. "Norway is breaking the law in several ways here," said Astrid...
s partner, Dasha Zhukova, sitting on a chair resembling a semi-nude bondaged black woman – published this week on a Russian fashion site – added to a painful list of black women's bodies being treated as expendable objects. Regardless of the outrage that led to the photograph's removal, the barrage of images like this one continues to demonstrate that pop culture, art and fashion are not only riddled...
s status as a social democratic paradise The Estonian capital of Tallinn lies 50 miles across the Gulf of Finland from Helsinki. One day in 1988, I went there by ferry. The Russian-owned boat was crowded with Finns in search of cheap vodka in Soviet Estonia. After two hours in the Soviet Union's territorial waters, a Finnish passenger lurched up to me and announced: "Last week I taste...
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A Norwegian kayaker has a near miss with a 20-tonne humpback whale on a trip to Gryllefjord at Senja island ...
ve got almost nothing to show for it Last Wednesday, every single Norwegian became a millionaire – without having to lift a lillefinger. They owe the windfall to their coastline, and a huge dollop of good sense. Since 1990, Norway has been squirreling away its cash from North Sea oil and gas into a rainy-day fund. It's now big enough to see Noah through all 40 of those drizzly days and nights. Last...