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GLOBAL WARMING PROMPTS NORWAY TO STRENGTHEN ITS DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT
ET Feb. 26, 2018 CLOSE The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the doomsday vault, took its first contribution of tree seeds this week... READ MORE›
GOLDEN FINISH FOR NORWAY AS RUSSIAN FLAG BARRED
Winter Olympics legend Marit Bjoergen lifted Norway top of the final Pyeongchang medals table on Sunday, as Russia celebrated a dramatic men's hockey gold... READ MORE›
AS MEDALS PILE UP, NORWAY WORRIES
He chose cross-country skiing because it's the most popular... READ MORE›
NEWS ANALYSIS US REVIVES CONCERNS ABOUT EUROPEAN DEFENSE PLANS RATTLING NATO ALLIES
While applauding the new European Union initiative, he said, I also highlight that we need to avoid duplication between the Europeans and NATO... READ MORE›
NORWAY TEAM ORDERS 15,000 EGGS BY ACCIDENT
Find 1,500 eggs to feed hungry Norwegian athletes at the Winter Olympics in South Korea... READ MORE›
BRITISH FISHING COULD BE ON THE HOOK POST-BREXIT
British fishermen hopeful of a post-Brexit boom may find life outside the European Union choppier than expected, a Reuters Graphic shows... READ MORE›
HIGH HOPES AMONG SCANDINAVIAN BACKERS OF 'ICE-SILK ROAD' WEST
The report, titled Vision for an Arctic Railroad, was delivered to Finnish and Norwegian transport officials on January 19... READ MORE›
CHINA TO DEVELOP 'POLAR SILK ROAD' AS GLOBAL WARMING OPENS UP THE ARCTIC
China on Friday outlined its ambitions to develop a Polar Silk Road of new Arctic shipping lanes opened up by global warming... READ MORE›
NORWEGIANS TO TRUMP: WE DON'T WANT TO MOVE TO THE US
A NATO ally, Norway has long enjoyed good relations with the United States... READ MORE›
WHO'D PREFER THEIR COUNTRY TO TRUMP'S US? NORWEGIANS WOULD
STAVANGER, Norway AP -- Norwegians generally live longer than Americans... READ MORE›
'THANKS, BUT NO THANKS' - NORWEGIANS REJECT TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION OFFER
On behalf of Norway Thanks, but no thanks, tweeted Torbjoern Saetre, a politician representing Norway's Conservative Party in a municipality near Oslo... READ MORE›
ANDERSON COOPER, JOHN LEGEND CALL TRUMP 'RACIST' FOLLOWING COMMENTS
Anderson Cooper, John Legend call Trump 'racist' following immigration comments... READ MORE›
NORWAY BACKS EU FISHING POLICIES REMAINING DURING BREXIT TRANSITION
North Sea curbs to last at least 21 months despite Michael Gove's suggestion Britain would take back control of its waters... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTALISTS LOSE LAWSUIT OVER NORWAY'S ARCTIC OIL LICENSES
Norway's oil policy is the business of the parliament, not the judicial system, Tommy Hansen, spokesman for the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, said on Thursday... READ MORE›
NORWAY POWERS AHEAD (ELECTRICALLY): OVER HALF NEW CAR SALES NOW ELECTR
Christina Bu, head of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association which represents owners, said the 2025 goal meant that Norway should stick with its incentives for electric cars... READ MORE›
INTELLIGENCE OF EUROPEANS IN DECLINE, SAY RESEARCHERS
Finland, Norway and Denmark have all experienced an average loss of 0.23 IQ points per year since the mid-1990s... READ MORE›
PLASTIC FOUND IN MUSSELS FROM ARCTIC TO CHINA -- ENTERS HUMAN FOOD
Plastics may be getting swept north by ocean currents and winds from Europe and America, before swirling around the Arctic Ocean, NIVA researcher Amy Lusher said... READ MORE›
CHINA, RUSSIA JOINTLY LAUNCH YAMAL LNG PROJECT IN THE ARCTIC
A general view of the Yamal LNG plant in Sabetta port on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, Russia, December 8, 2017... READ MORE›
BRITAIN SHOULD SIGN A CANADA-STYLE TRADE DEAL WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AFTER BREXIT, DAVID DAVIS SAYS
Britain should sign a Canada-style trade deal with the European Union after Brexit, David Davis said today... READ MORE›
THE MOST NORTHERLY TOWN IN THE WORLD IN IS AT RISK OF DISAPPEARING
In fact the island has no indigenous population, and Longyearbyen is mainly made up of migrants from mainland Norway, neighboring Scandinavian countries and Thailand... READ MORE›
SAMI ARTIST DRAWS ATTENTION TO NORWAY'S REINDEER CULL
In a display outside the country's parliament in Oslo, Maret Anne Sara has hung a curtain made of 400 bullet-ridden reindeer skulls... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Harran
ARCTIC STRONGHOLD OF WORLD'S SEEDS FLOODED AFTER PERMAFROST MELTS
The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop... READ MORE›
BUS SEATS MISTAKEN FOR BURQAS BY MEMBERS OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT GROUP
Comments posted on Norwegian 'Fatherland first' Facebook group call empty seats on Oslo bus 'terrifying'... READ MORE›
AN ANTI-IMMIGRANT GROUP MISTOOK EMPTY BUS SEATS FOR WOMEN WEARING BURQAS
It also played into a continent-wide debate about Islamic dress across Europe... READ MORE›
NORWAY IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH
The World Happiness Report was released to coincide with the United Nations' International Day of Happiness on 20 March... READ MORE›
NORWAY PLANS TO CULL MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF ITS WOLF POPULATION
But the new legal hunting limit is beyond anything that the wild population can withstand, according to Norway's leading green groups... READ MORE›
NORWAY IDEA TO EXIT OIL STOCKS IS 'SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD'
But the debate, she said, underscores that climate change has made fossil fuels increasingly risky investments... READ MORE›
NORWAY IDEA TO EXIT OIL STOCKS IS 'SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD'
But the debate, she said, underscores that climate change has made fossil fuels increasingly risky investments... READ MORE›
THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY ON EARTH THE WINNER IS
That boosted the per person annual income, as measured by economic output, to more than 100,000 -- nearly double that of the United States... READ MORE›
NEW COLD WAR: US MARINES' NORWAY WAR GAMES
READ MORE Danger of Donald Trump's NATO comments The Norwegian official says that over the past two years, we have gradually seen more and more ..... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S $1 TRILLION WEALTH FUND WANTS OUT OF OIL GAS STOCKS
The 1 trillion fund that Norway has amassed pumping oil and gas over the past two decades wants out of petroleum stocks... READ MORE›
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SEES IN EARLY SPRING DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING
And in the US, spring arrived 22 days early this year in Washington DC... READ MORE›
US SIGNS TREATY TO PROTECT ARCTIC, GIVING SOME HOPE FOR PARIS AGREEMENT
He was speaking at the end of a meeting of the eight-nation Arctic Council in Alaska, a consultative body dedicated to sustaining the Arctic... READ MORE›
THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT IS OUT AND THE U.S. HAS FALLEN. SAD!
It is sometimes said that Norway achieves and maintains its high happiness not because of its oil wealth, but in spite of it, the report states... READ MORE›
NORWAY FACES CLIMATE LAWSUIT OVER ARCTIC OIL EXPLORATION PLANS
Campaigners say decision to open up the Barents Sea violates the nation's constitution and threatens the Paris climate agreement... READ MORE›
'WITH TRUMP'S WIN WE MIGHT'VE DODGED NUCLEAR BULLET'
RT Donald Trump wants NATO members to pay their way and even suggested he doesn't mind the alliance breaking up... READ MORE›
NORWAY REPRIEVES 32 OF 47 WOLVES EARMARKED FOR CULL
Predator management in Norway has not always been based on sound knowledge... READ MORE›
NORWAY'S PUSH FOR ARCTIC OIL AND GAS THREATENS PARIS CLIMATE GOALS - STUDY
Norway's current plans for fossil fuel production, expansion, and exploration are dangerously out of line with these budgets... READ MORE›
EU PROPOSES TOTAL COMMERCIAL FISHING BAN ON ATLANTIC SEA BASS
EU sources predicted a very difficult meeting at the council, where ministers traditionally vie to appear strong in defence of their domestic fishing industries... READ MORE›
BIG OIL'S DREAM OF $65 BILLION HIDDEN OFF NORWAY IS FADING AWAY
Norway's oil industry has been salivating for years over the Arctic Lofoten islands, which could hold billions of barrels of crude... READ MORE›
A FACEBOOK GROUP THOUGHT THESE EMPTY BUS SEATS WERE WOMEN IN BURQAS
An anti-immigration Norwegian Facebook group has been mocked after members appeared not to know the difference between empty bus seats and burqa-clad women... READ MORE›
NORWAY RANKED WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRY; JAPAN PLACES NO. 51
Income in the United States has gone up over the past decade, but happiness is declining... READ MORE›
SUSTAINABLE BRITISH COD ON THE MENU AFTER STOCKS RECOVER
James Simpson, from the MSC, said the North Sea cod stocks have just recently reached a sustainable level... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP'S SECRET 'WIG FARM' GETS DISCOVERED BY NORWEGIAN TV
The clusters, the video jokes, are part of Donald Trump's secret wig farm... READ MORE›
CONTROVERSY AFTER NORWEGIAN COURT FINES HAIRDRESSER FOR DENYING SERVICE TO MUSLIM WOMAN
The court ordered that Hodne pay Bayan 10,000 kroner 1,200 in compensation as well as court costs of 5,000 kroner 750 ... READ MORE›
NORWAY TO BOOST PROTECTION OF ARCTIC SEED VAULT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
Norway is boosting the flood defences of its Global Seed Vault on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard after water entered the entrance tunnel last year... READ MORE›
UNITED NATIONS RELEASES LIST OF WORLD'S HAPPIEST COUNTRIES
In Western countries such as Australia, mental illness turned out to be the most important determinant of happiness - above income, employment or physical wellbeing... READ MORE›
CUTTING CASH WOULD BE A BOON FOR THE WORLD'S POOR, ROGOFF SAYS
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Scandinavia's efforts to rely less on cash have been gradual, and backed by a well-functioning digital economy... READ MORE›
ARCTIC FINLAND: BLAZING FIREBALL LIGHTS UP ARCTIC SKY
Amateur astronomers in the Arctic then saw about 1,000 meteors, 40 meteorites and one fireball in just one night... READ MORE›
NORWAY HELICOPTER CRASH: '11 KILLED' NEAR BERGEN
It was flying from the Gullfaks oil field to Bergen, a centre for the North Sea oil and gas industry... READ MORE›
HOW TRADE AND SANCTIONS MADE THIS RUSSIAN FISHERMAN A BILLIONAIRE
The 30 million structure is the crown jewel of Orlov's Murmansk-based Norebo Holding JSC... READ MORE›