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From warship to whaler: Solving the mystery of a Sanday shipwreck
The Past
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August 3, 2025
In February 2024, winter storms stripped layers of sand from an Orkney beach, revealing the remains of a previously unknown shipwreck that lay preserved in the intertidal zone off the island of Sanday. Initially spotted by a local schoolboy, the...
'Vision Zero': Why are Norwegian roads so safe?
The Local - Norway
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July 25, 2025
With just 89 deaths in traffic accidents in 2024, Norway is far and away the safest country for drivers in Europe, and this is despite difficult weather conditions and the truly terrifying hairpin bends of some of its mountain roads. So what's the...
In trying to reduce air pollution, China may have sped up global warming: Study
Straight Arrow News
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July 15, 2025
While attempting to improve air quality in China and across East Asia, regulators may have inadvertently contributed to a rise in global warming, according to a new study. Fewer aerosol emissions, which can also be used as a method to cool the...
China's Clean Air Could Be Behind an Acceleration in Global Warming
ScienceAlert
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July 15, 2025
Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening is still unclear, and among the biggest questions in climate science today. Our new study reveals that reductions in air...
Norway’s Stoltenberg lauds SA’s meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors
Daily Maverick
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July 20, 2025
South Africa’s final G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was a success, said Norway’s finance minister, Jens Stoltenberg. The meeting at the Zimbali beach resort north of Durban on Thursday and Friday produced the first...
Five Hot Environmental Issues in the Apparel and Textile Industry
National Law Review
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July 24, 2025
The growing emphasis on sustainability and environmental stewardship is reshaping the legal and regulatory framework for the apparel and textiles industry. This shift presents new challenges for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of...
Was East Asian Air Cleanup Behind Recent Global Warming Showtime?
MENAFN
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July 15, 2025
Latest stories China accelerates its maglev train to catch up with Japan Hegseth's drone dominance policy needs offshore production help Toward a new resilient India–South Korea strategic partnership We have found that polluted air may have been...
Why cleaner air is actually accelerating global warming
The Independent
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July 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
China's success in cleaning up air pollution may have accelerated global warming: Study
KSWB - California
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July 14, 2025
(The Hill) – Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can cool the planet by absorbing sunlight...
Western Norway braced for 35mm of rain in a single hour
The Local - Norway
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July 24, 2025
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Met) has issued an orange warning for "very heavy rain showers" along the entire western coast of the country, with as much as 35mm of rain possible in some places in a single hour. The rainy weather began...
Norway Seabirds
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - West Virginia
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In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem. The population of kittiwakes has declined by 80% since the...
Hurtigruten will pay remote Norwegian villages to host passengers
The Independent
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July 24, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Christians petition government on climate, as ICJ delivers historic ruling
Premier Christianity News
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Eighteen Christian groups have co-signed a petition to the Prime Minister, urging him to halt the exploration of new oil and gas at the Rosebank oil field off the Shetland coast. The letter, addressed to Sir Keir Starmer and the Secretary of State...
WHO unveils health and environment scorecards for 194 countries
The National Tribune
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July 24, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the 2024 update of its health and environment country scorecards, assessing how countries are managing eight major environmental threats to health across sectors. These threats include air...
Norwegian Ministry Of Climate And Environment Concludes In Favour Of Elkem In EU ETS Free Emission Allowances Allocation Complaint
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) OSLO, Norway, July 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Elkem ASA has been informed that the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment (KLD) has concluded that Norwegian silicon, ferrosilicon and manganese producers were unequally...
The eye-opening science of close encounters with polar bears: Arctic expedition uncovers diet shifts and pollution risks
Malay Mail
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July 24, 2025
ONGYEARBYEN, July 24 — It’s a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear — one of the most dangerous predators on the planet — on an Arctic ice floe. First you have to find it and then shoot it with a sedative dart from...
With Their New Arctic-Focused Project, Bicep Wants Listeners to Understand Climate Change ‘On a Human Level’
Billboard
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July 24, 2025
The glacier was singing. Northern Irish duo Bicep were on a trip to Greenland, and when the pair’s Andy Ferguson visited the country’s famous Russell Glacier, he says he found it to be “like an orchestra of noise. The squeals and crashes that the...
Norwegian diplomats visit Palawan NGO tackling teen pregnancy, explore deeper partnership on HIV
ScandAsia
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July 18, 2025
Norwegian Deputy Ambassador to the Philippines Geir Michalsen (in striped T-shirt, back row center) and Second Secretary Maria Jensen (in white, beside him) pose with Roots of Health staff and local partners during their visit to the...
What it was like one of the best Norway fjord…
USA Today
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Nordkapp, marketed as continental Europe's northernmost point, offered frigid temperatures despite being visited during the summer solstice. The cruise included stops in the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, and the Shetland Islands, with excursions...
In Scandinavia, Pioneer Press readers explore heritage, mountains, fjords and fresh fish
Pioneer Press - Minnesota
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August 3, 2025
For two weeks in June, I never saw the night sky. I did, however, see soaring mountains sinking into impossibly blue fjords, vast glaciers, historic urban centers, beautifully manicured gardens and too many waterfalls to count. A group of Pioneer...