For the first time since April, corona infection in Norway is higher than in Sweden if measured per capita. In the last week, Norway has had two major outbreaks. Per 100,000 people, 1.4 new corona cases have been registered in the last seven days, compared with 1.1 in Sweden, writesContinue Reading
Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann calls it “the dumbest energy and environmental policy ever”. Now, finally, after years of being warned, Germany’s mainstream media are finally showing signs of waking up to it. Germany’s flagship ARD public broadcasting recently presented a report earlier today about how “CO2 neutral” wood burning isContinue Reading
The Norwegian parliament suffered a cyber attack during the past week and the e-mail accounts of several elected members as well as employees were hacked, the national assembly and a counter-intelligence agency said on Tuesday. “This has been a significant attack,” said Marianne Andreassen, the parliament’s non-elected chief administrator. AContinue Reading
At least 36 crew members from a Norwegian cruise ship have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Hurtigruten, the company that owns the ship. Several passengers have also tested positive in what the cruise line describes as an “outbreak” onboard the MS Roald Amundsen. Four patients were admitted to aContinue Reading
Lithuania’s Deputy Health Minister Lina Jaruseviciene recently named a suspect in an investigation being carried out by the country’s Finance Crime Investigation Service handed in her resignation letter on Monday, the health minister’s spokeswoman Lina Businskaite said. In her words, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga plans to satisfy her request onContinue Reading
Finland’s health agency (THL) could recommend the wearing of face masks in public spaces and on public transport next week, says one leading official. Mika Salminen of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) told @Yle that the agency is to meet early next week to decide on anContinue Reading
In the past day to Thursday, July 30, Lithuanian health authorities have registered 19 new infections with the novel coronavirus. Estonia followed with nine new cases and Latvia was the only Baltic country not to have a faster increase in newly confirmed cases compared to the day before. Lithuania hadContinue Reading
A senior US official said the ice melt was an “opportunity” for economic growth. The U.S. State Department has named a new special envoy for the Arctic amid increased competition with Russia and China for influence in the region, which is facing some of the most damaging effects ofContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar: COVID-19 may be brought under control once a vaccine is discovered, but climate change is here to stay and would pose severe threat to humankind. That was the view of experts at a national webinar on climate change, environmentalism and COVID-19 which was organized by the city-based Focus OdishaContinue Reading
Region Gotland har tillsammans med näringslivsorganisationer på Gotland anlitat Riddarsällskapet Torneamentum för att hjälpa till att minska risken för smittspridning av coronaviruset. Under de kommande högsommarveckorna kommer ”Covidriddarna” från Torneamentum att rida ut till välbesökta platser runt om på Gotland för att sprida budskapet ”Tillsammans tar vi ansvar”. De kommerContinue Reading