The security policy situation has changed, the Government says and adds another 3,5 billion kroner (€362 million) to the budget for strengthening defense and civil preparedness. Russia’s operation in Ukraine “represents a turning point for Norwegian and European security,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said at a press conference inContinue Reading
Retrospective: Norway’s relationship with its superpower neighbour to the east has often been tense. In this article, Salve Dahle and co-authors give an eyewitness account of the time just after the fall of the Soviet Union, when cross-border tensions began to ease. Early on the morning of 30 July 1992,Continue Reading
Norway’s blustery Fosen peninsula is a long way from anywhere, its mountains sustaining the Indigenous Sami and their reindeer for centuries. These same peaks are vital to the kingdom’s wind energy plans, and native herder Lena Haugen says her people pay the price. Snaking through the snowy terrain are dozens ofContinue Reading
Stockholm: Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and members of the Nordic country’s indigenous Sami community on Saturday protested against a possible iron ore mine in northern Sweden. The government is next month to decide whether to greenlight the controversial project led by UK firm Beowulf, which has promised to createContinue Reading
“The USA is our most important ally, and the government is concerned with maintaining and further developing the strong security policy ties between our two countries,” Enoksen (SP) said in a statement to NTB. On Monday, November 15, he travels to the United States to meet with US Secretary ofContinue Reading
In an address on Tuesday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said that after more than 40 years of discussing climate change, the world needs to act now. “We have reached a point where we need to move beyond goals andContinue Reading
The Arctic region has reached an “unprecedented crisis point” due to climate change, a problem which is the “most comprehensive threat” facing the region, the EU Commission said in a joint statement on Wednesday. Issued by the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and SecurityContinue Reading
Med regjeringens forslag om endret oljeskatt, har diskusjoner rundt behovet for å endre oljepolitikken for å kutte utslipp skutt fart i valgkampen. Nå advarer Naturvernforbundet, Natur og ungdom, Greenpeace og WWF Verdens naturfond mot å tro at et endret oljeskatteregime i seg selv vil gi klimagevinst. Endringer i oljeskatten erContinue Reading
Tuore kansainvälinen tutkimus antaa vahvistusta ristiriitaiselta kuulostavalle teorialle, jonka mukaan maailmanlaajuinen ilmaston lämpeneminen voi saada aikaan paikallisesti hyvin ankaria talvisäitä. Science-tiedelehdessä (siirryt toiseen palveluun) julkaisun tutkimuksen mukaan ilmaston lämpeneminen muuttaa polaaripyörteen nimellä tunnettua napa-aluetta kiertävää tuulijärjestelmää. Polaaripyörre erottaa hyvin kylmän napa-alueen ilman eteläisempien vyöhykkeiden lämpimämmästä ilmasta. Polaaripyörre kiertää pohjoisnapaa aaltoillen,Continue Reading
With the global economic development the Arctic region has increasingly become important. Depletion of natural resources forces countries to exploit remote and hard-to-reach mineral deposits. International experts assess that Arctic accounts for about 13% of undiscovered oil, 30% of undiscovered natural gas, and 30% of freshwater in the world. Consequently,Continue Reading