Bridge to nowhere

Sweden and Denmark, two of the world's most eco-friendly countries, compromise on environment to go ahead with the construction of Europe's …

Bridge over troubled waters

Sweden's environment minister resigns over the government's plan to build a bridge-and-tunnel link with Denmark

A lead from the past

Evidence trawled from lake sediments in Sweden traces atmospheric lead pollution back to more than 2 millennia

Canadian student wins 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Researched how to treat and prevent harmful algae blooms after fisherman father couldn't work anymore

Bridge across forever

A new neurosurgical technique could mean a new life for those with severed a spinal cord, which with a little guidance, can nurse itself back to …

How Sweden got out of the garbage dumps

Less than one per cent of garbage goes to landfill; energy from waste powers public transport, heats homes

Politics over science: Experts slam Sweden’s wolf cull; say it should learn to live with large carnivores

The wolf cull in Sweden will worsen the ongoing effects of inbreeding among Sweden’s lupines, say experts

Roasted North: Why record-shattering heatwaves are burning the northern hemisphere

The heatwaves in the northern hemisphere are now frequent, early, intense and last longer as seen in Siberia last year and North America this year

The new urban dream

Sweden is successfully moving towards self-sustaining cities where long-term ecological gains rank higher than short-term economics.

Human activities are eating into reindeer grazing land in Europe

Multiple stresses affect 60% of Fennoscandia region; High risk of vegetation and landscape change in the future, finds study

60% European water bodies highly polluted: study

European Environmental Agency, in its study, finds English rivers, lakes and estuaries to be among the worst

Most EU countries set to miss 2020 carbon emission reduction targets: report

Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the UK are no longer at the forefront of the fight against climate change

Arsenic-free

Scientists in Sweden are propagating laterite treatment for the removal of arsenic from groundwater in the Bengal Delta plains

EU nations agree to ban toxic chemical in textiles

Surfactants used in textiles manufactured outside the EU are released into the environment when washed by consumers, posing risk to aquatic life

Legal trophy hunting in Sweden puts interests of a few over ecological balance

The red-listed lynx does little damage to livestock, but a record number are now being hunted purely for sport  

Stem cells can heal damages caused by Parkinson’s disease, finds study

Experiments on rats indicated a major breakthrough towards developing effective treatments

Russia ambiguous on Kyoto

With Russia blowing hot and cold on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the ninth conference of parties (COP-9) to the UN Framework Convention on …

Developed countries face tough questions on emissions reduction

Inadequacy of targets and discrepancies in reporting highlighted at the first multilateral review of Annexe I parties

From the frying-pan to fire

Sweden may be trying hard to control the phenomenon of acid rain, but the end result is another crisis at hand - a dwindling Population of the moose

'Let us internalise the relation we need to have with nature'

Jonathon Porritt wears many hats. A pioneer of green politics in the UK, sustainability campaigner, media personality and writer. His latest book,…

Ireland ratifies Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol

India, despite being the current president of Convention on Biological Diversity, has not yet ratified it  

Producer's onus paramount

One of the pioneers of the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) theory, Thomas Lindhqvist believes that plastic waste management will become …

Drilling down the dumps

Household garbage produces large quantities of methane which leaks into the atmosphere and contributes to the greenhouse effect. A Swedish …

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Computer update

Wooden monitors to protect environs