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Oil industry is finally starting to be affected by Norway’s rapid electric car adoption
Norway’s electric vehicle adoption rate is so far ahead of most countries that it gives us glimpses into the future of bigger markets – sometimes even decades ahead of time. Now it is starting to show signs of demand for gasoline and diesel slowing down as electric vehicles are taking over. In Norway, the market share of electric vehicles has hit over 50% of new cars over the last year, which is higher than in any other county.
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Norway is making its fjords ‘the world’s first zero emission zone at sea’
Norway’s majestic fjords have become popular tourist attractions over the years. For example, more than 300.000 cruise passenger visited Geiranger last year and as a result of it, the local air pollution has become a periodical health hazard. Now the Norwegian Parliament has acted to halt emissions from cruise ships and ferries in the Norwegian world heritage fjords – making them zero-emission zones by 2026 where only electric ships will be able to go.
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Apple tried to sue a small iPhone repair shop in Norway, the repair shop won
It's no secret that Apple doesn't want you to be able to easily repair your devices. While almost anyone can open an Android repair shop, opening an Apple repair shop requires certification and that you follow a strict set of…
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The Crystals That May Have Helped Vikings Navigate Northern Seas
Norse sagas refer to “sunstones,” and new computer simulations shore up a hypothesis that they were used to guide ships as far as Greenland when weather was poor.
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Police and bereaved relatives urge Norway to lead the way in drug reform
Norway’s drug laws could be an example for the rest of the world, leading healthcare and police figures from around the world have said. Drug policy in the Scandinavian country is no longer a criminal matter but one of public health - a move that has been widely praised by experts. Now 20 international policymakers and stakeholders from 10 countries have outlined a number of further reforms to ensure the policy platform can work as an even better template for other countries to follow.
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The community of 2,000 people with 151 cases of sex crime
Norwegian police have documented 151 cases of sexual abuse, including child rape, in one small community of 2,000 people, north of the Arctic circle. The offences occurred over decades - between the 1950s and 2017 - but were only recently uncovered. How could such serious sex crimes go unchecked for so long? Nina Iversen says she has always been someone who talks - and has often talked about what happened to her when she was growing up in Tysfjord.
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Norway Plans a Sustainable “City of the Future”
The city will be walkable and car free, and use only the renewable energy it creates.
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EMNEX - Emergency Management Network of Excellence
Emergency Management Network of Excellence is a business network consisting of advanced IT and telecom related companies offering disaster and emergency management solutions.
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A futuristic circular hotel glows under the aurora borealis.
The new hotel will be the world’s first ‘Powerhouse’ hotel in the Arctic circle, producing its own energy while simultaneously reducing its energy needs.
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How a Sneak Attack By Norway's Skiing Soldiers Deprived the Nazis of the Atomic Bomb
Seventy-five years ago, in Operation Gunnerside, a stealthy group of commandos took out a crucial Nazi chemical plant
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Norway to Spend $13 Million to Upgrade Doomsday Seed Vault
Norway is pushing 100 million kroner ($13 million) more to upgrade the Svalbard Global Seed Vault after 10 years of operations.
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As Medals Pile Up, Norway Worries: Are We Winning Too Much?
After a historic performance at the Olympics, some Norwegians fret that they dominate their favorite sport so much that they are ruining it.
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Toxic Waste from Norwegian Hydro Threatens Amazon and Drinking Water Supply in Brazil
Half state owned Norwegian aluminum company Hydro is accused of serious environmental damage in Brazil. In addition to a leak of toxic mining debris that has contaminated several communities in Barcarena, the Norwegian giant Hydro is accused to have used a “clandestine pipeline to discharge untreated effluent”, according to Brazilian media.
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Why Norway is the best place in the world to be a writer
Travel to Norway and one thing strikes you right away: The country is really small. At about 5 million, its population is the size of Alabama’s. So selling a half-million copies of erudite books there, as Karl Ove Knausgaard has, is even more remarkable than it sounds. This is a tough one to fact-check, but I would estimate that on a per capita basis, his autobiographical series, My Struggle, has already sold about as well in Norway as The Great Gatsby has sold in America all time.
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Norway Is Happiest Country in the World. What's the Secret?
Another year, another report saying that the Nordic countries are the happiest in the world. Every year the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases the World Happiness Report, backed by the Ernesto Illy Foundation, which lists the happiest countries in the world. This year the winner was Norway, which follows a trend of Scandinavian countries consistently winning the title of the most content places on earth — even though they have a long, cold and dark winter.
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A Norwegian plane flew from New York to London in 5 hours 13 minutes — the fastest subsonic commercial transatlantic flight ever
Norwegian — the low-cost airline that has made headlines for launching the world's longest low-cost flight — is making headlines again. A Norwegian Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner departing from New York JFK reached London Gatwick in 5 hours 13 minutes on Monday — the fastest subsonic transatlantic flight recorded on a commercial aircraft. It beat the previous record of 5 hours 16 minutes.
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Why Don’t Norwegians Immigrate to the U.S.? Let’s Look at Their Family Policies.
Norway is committed to gender fairness and family life. The U.S. has a lot to learn.
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This Quaint Fishing Village Will Make You Want To Run Off To Norway
Have you ever felt the urge to escape it all, run off to Norway and hole up in a converted red fisherman's cottage?
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Trump Wishes We Had More Immigrants From Norway. Turns Out We Once Did
Back in the 19th century, Norwegians began coming to the United States in droves. And they were among the poorest of the poor.
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More Americans Move to Norway Than the Other Way Around
While U.S President Donald Trump wants to welcome Norwegians rather than people from some other countries he’s reported to have called “shitholes,” the richest Scandinavians aren’t exactly beating down the door.
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