A Danish-Norwegian project aimed at building what will be the world’s largest and most powerful hydrogen-fuelled ferry has applied for EU funding. The plan is to start operating a Copenhagen-Oslo service by 2027.

Environmental activists nevertheless hailed Denmark’s move as significant as it shows the way forward in fighting climate change. Denmark has decided to end all oil and gas offshore activities in the North Sea by 2050 and has cancelled its latest licensing round, saying the country is “putting an end to the fossil era”.

Denmark will get rid of its entire mink population over reports the animal had infected humans with a mutated strain of COVID-19.

Lars Findsen and two members of staff are suspended after claims of rule-breaking in the agency.

On Læsø, houses are thatched with thick, heavy bundles of silvery seaweed that have the potential to be a contemporary building material around the world.

Denmark, the first country in Europe to gradually start reopening, reported no coronavirus-related deaths on Friday from the day earlier for the first time since March 13. Denmark’s total number of confirmed cases rose by 78 to 10,791 since Thursday, with the number of hospitalisations falling by 10 to 137. The death toll remained unchanged at 537.

Poland and Denmark have taken unprecedented steps to exclude companies registered in tax havens from coronavirus relief schemes. The Danish government announced this weekend that companies which pay out dividends, buy back own shares or are registered in offshore tax jurisdictions won’t be eligible for any of the state aid programmes.

“We are freezing the economy.”

Microwavable popcorn bags are often coated in PFAS, too.

Greenland on Friday dismissed the notion that it might be up for sale.

A bank in Denmark is offering borrowers mortgages at a negative interest rate, effectively paying its customers to borrow money for a house purchase. Jyske Bank, Denmark's third-largest bank, said this week that customers would now be able to take out a 10-year fixed-rate mortgage with an interest rate of -0.5%, meaning customers will pay back less than the amount they borrowed.

A newly revived rail plan could see Denmark’s trains catch up with its reputation for other types of green transit.

Experts think its owner may have been defeated in battle and dropped the luxurious weapon in the muddy streets

People living in approximately 200,000 households in Denmark can’t afford enough food, according to the new study. The work uses measurement methods used in the United States, where public authorities regularly monitor the prevalence of food insecurity.

New labelling on food packaging will enable consumers in Denmark to see the effect of their shopping on the environment. Food products will be marked with stickers showing their environmental impact, according to a proposal expected to be included in a new climate package to be presented by the government this week. “We want to give consumers the means to assess in supermarkets the environmental impact of products,” Minister for the Environment Lars Christian Lilleholt said.

Healthy production of tomatoes in Denmark, boosted by this year’s warm summer, has not been allowed to go to waste by a producer in Odense.

A U.S. soldier has been banned from Denmark for 12 years after he was convicted last week of attempted rape in the country. The soldier was assigned to a special operations unit in Europe when the incident occurred, according to Stars and Stripes. The 21-year-old was also sentenced to 18 months in prison.

When a ban on the wearing of face veils in public took effect in Denmark on Wednesday, Sabina (pictured centre below) did not leave her niqab at home. Instead, she joined around 1,300 Muslims and non-Muslims alike in a march through the capital Copenhagen to protest at what they saw as an infringement on freedom of religion and expression.

When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law. Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a “ghetto,” Rokhaia will be what the Danish newspapers call a “ghetto parent” and he will be a “ghetto child.” Starting at the age of 1, “ghetto children” must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in...

Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burq.