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If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Just Take Away The Parking Spaces
Oslo had a plan to lower its emissions by drastically limit car travel in its center. Now you can drive, but it might not be worth it.
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Norway to ban use of heating oil in buildings
Norway will be the first country in the world to prohibit the use of fossil-based oil to heat buildings. The ban will cover both new and old buildings including private homes and businesses as well as publicly owned facilities.
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Norway seeks full-face veil ban in schools and universities
The Norwegian government has proposed a ban on full face veils in schools and universities. The law would apply to students taking part in introductory programs and language courses for newly-arrived refugees.
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Norway Supreme Court will not examine mass murderer Breivik's human rights appeal
The Norwegian Supreme Court will not take up an appeal lodged by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik protesting against his prison conditions, the court said on Thursday. Breivik was seeking to overturn a March decision by a Norwegian appeals court that ruled that his near-isolation in a three-room cell respected human rights.
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Too many prisons make bad people worse. There is a better way.
The world can learn from how Norway treats its offenders
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Norway's 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Flooded by Melting Permafrost
A seed vault in the Arctic that's supposed to preserve the world's food supply for hundreds of years was partially flooded in recent months, and one of the reasons it was built in the first place is believed to be the culprit. The Global Seed Vault, located on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, took on water during the winter because of melting permafrost, according to the Guardian. As the Arctic continues to set record highs, the permafrost was pushed above the melting point, and water seeped into the vault which is built into a mountain, the report added.
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Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years
How a Nordic mystery death led to a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities. By Helier Cheung.
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Norwegian media competitors join forces in war against fake news
One of the sucky legacies of 2016 is the surge of fake news. Donald Trump rode a wave of misinformation to the White House and British voters shot themselves in the foot after listening to the false promises of Brexit. Norway is one of the countries that isn’t especially keen on following the fuckups of the US and UK by letting lies slide. That’s why Norway’s three biggest competing media outlets announced a joint project to combat fake news.
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Night’s Nirvana
On Norwegian Black Metal. By Ben Parker. (Nov. 30, 2016)
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Norway police neutralize explosive device, arrest suspect
Norway's police have defused an explosive device found near a busy subway station in the capital and arrested a suspect. The discovery of the explosive Saturday night brought police to evacuate late night bars and restaurants. Police Chief Vidar Pedersen confirmed that the device, initially described as "bomb-like," was an explosive. The police Twitter account said it had been defused or neutralized.
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Pining for cleaner air in the Norwegian fjords
Diesel-powered ferries are big polluters, so could electric engines be a cleaner option?
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1,000-Year-Old Toy Viking Boat Unearthed in Norway
A wooden toy discovered during an excavation of an Iron Age site in central Norway hints that 1,000 years ago, a child may have imagined ferocious Viking battles by playing with a carved replica of a ship. Found buried in a dry well at a small farm in the town of Ørland on the coastal tundra, the boat is whittled in a style resembling Viking vessels, with an uplifted prow and a hole in the center that likely held a mast for a sail.
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Norway unseats Denmark as world's happiest country: report
Norway displaced Denmark as the world's happiest country in a new report released on Monday that called on nations to build social trust and equality to improve the wellbeing of their citizens. The Nordic nations are the most content, according to the World Happiness Report 2017 produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative launched by the United Nations in 2012.
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Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof
A jazz musician from Norway hunted bits of cosmic debris for eight years and found it everywhere. Turns out, tons of it land every day. By William J. Broad.
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100 Percent of Cars Sold in Norway to be Electric by 2025
Norway's electric car market is growing rapidly. While only 2% of car sales in 2002 were EVs, that number has risen to 22% in 2015 and is continuing to grow. That jump makes Norway's goal of selling purely electric vehicles by 2025 seem a little less ambitious. Because of this growth, Norway has created a program to ramp up the number of charging stations around the country. This should make driving an electric car a more viable option while also solving some of the range anxiety that could be making potential customers reluctant to make the switch to full electric.
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Mass killer Breivik loses human rights case against Norway
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik lost a human rights case on Wednesday when an appeals court overturned a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman. Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, massacred 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, many of them teenagers, at a youth meeting of the then-ruling Labour Party.
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Norwegian confirms transatlantic flights from Dublin, Cork and Shannon from €69
Budget carrier Norwegian Air International (NAI) has vowed to revolutionise transatlantic travel with one-way flights from €69. The "groundbreaking" fares, which are inclusive of all taxes and charges, will be available on new NAI flights planned from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to non-hub airports in New York and Boston, starting from July 1.
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The man behind the 'doomsday' vault that stores every known crop on the planet explains how it came to be
Buried in the side of a mountain in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault stores virtually every kind of seed.
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Norway is reaching tipping point for electric vehicles as market share reaches record breaking 37%
We were talking just the other day about how slow it is to change the automotive market because of its gigantic size. With around 2 billion cars on the roads around the world and an annual production capacity of roughly 100 million cars, it takes 20 years to update the global fleet. It means that once all new cars sold are equipped with a new technology, like electric propulsion, it can take up to 20 years to refresh the fleet.
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Former Norway PM held at Washington airport over 2014 visit to Iran
A former prime minister of Norway has spoken of his shock after he was held and questioned at Washington Dulles airport because of a visit to Iran three years ago. Kjell Magne Bondevik, who served as prime minister of Norway from 1997-2000 and 2001-05, flew into the US from Europe on Tuesday afternoon to attend this week’s National Prayer Breakfast. He was held for an hour after customs agents saw in his diplomatic passport that he had been to Iran in 2014. Bondevik said his passport also clearly indicated that he was the former PM of Norway.
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