Finland: ministers call for more action on environmental crimes
A proposal to lower the threshold for bringing criminal charges in cases of environmental damage has gained the support of
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Sweden’s Social Democrats make forest investment pledge
The opposition Social Democrats want to spend more on developing Sweden’s forestry industry, party leader Stefan Löfven announced today. In
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Plastic waste threatens oceans say Swedish researchers
Researchers in Sweden are calling on people to use less plastic in an effort to help protect the oceans as
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Is Sweden really one of the world’s greenest countries?
Not only was Sweden one of the first countries in the world to introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions
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Police investigate whether to bring criminal charges over nickel leak in Finland
A maximum sentence of six years in prison could be levelled at those responsible for the 66-ton chemical leak from
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Finland: Left, Greens and Norilsk Nickel weigh in on Harjavalta leak
Left Alliance committee calls for Pori river check-up; Green League VP chides environmental administration; metal factory Norilsk Nickel claims responsibility
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Arctic air clearer after Soviet Union’s collapse, long-term study says
The clouds of black carbon soiling snow and ice in Finland’s Arctic region have diminished significantly since the middle of
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Sweden: Cleaner Baltic to yield billions
Sweden stands to gain SEK 27 billion per year and 70,000 new jobs if the Baltic Sea is cleaned up,
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Finland: Harjavalta nickel leak biggest on record
The nickel leak from a factory in Harjavalta, Finland is now the biggest ever recorded in Finland. The plant has
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Finland: Environmental authority says nickel leak threatening southwest river
Environmental authorities in southwest Finland fear that nickel emissions from a local mine may be endangering marine life in the
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WWF Finland concerned about oil leak in Baltic Sea
A decades-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden has begun to leak oil into the Baltic Sea. Finnish environmentalists are
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Sweden’s Society for Nature Conservation: some plastics should be phased out
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation is calling for a ban on certain plastics following a two year investigation. “We
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Sweden’s environment minister upset by car industry emission testing delays
Sweden’s Environment Minister says attempts by the European car industry to delay the introduction of new methods to test greenhouse
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Nunavut fuel spills are down, but accidents still happen
Reports show that about 100,000 litres of oil spill every year in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, with the
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Shippers and seabirds clash over Arctic territory says study
The areas coveted as sea routes for commercial shippers seeking to exploit newly ice-free Arctic waters are the same areas
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