The Circularity Gap Report Norway is an in-depth analysis of how Norway consumes raw materials—metals, fossil fuels, biomass and minerals—to fuel its societal needs. Currently, 97.6% of materials consumed each year never make it back into the economy. Norway also has one of the highest per capita consumption rates in …
A doomsday vault is being built in the Arctic. Scientists expect the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe. Located on the remote Svalbard Island, roughly 1,000 km from the North Pole, the vault will hold about 1.5 billion seeds and 3 million crop varieties …
Norway recently hit back at a group of 12 nations led by the uk, which insisted the Scandinavian country put an end to whale hunts. Norway broke the global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1993 and will harpoon the largest number of whales in 2006 since the 1980s. The nations …
shell and Statoil, the uk and Norwegian oil companies, have signed an agreement on March 8, 2006, that involves burying carbon dioxide (co2) under the North Sea bed. The oil companies plan to take co2 from power plants in Norway and pipe it to aging oil wells under the sea, …
the Bangladesh government has banned the decommissioned Norwegian cruise liner, S S Norway, from entering its shores after receiving information that it was carrying 1,250 tonnes of asbestos. The ban came after the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (bela) threatened legal action if the ship was allowed into Bangladesh's territorial waters. …
• The European Union has banned imports of untreated feathers from countries close to or neighbouring Turkey, where cases of avian flu have been recently reported. The countries affected by the ban are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria. • The Chinese government has ordered an end to the …
The Lancet Norway When Camilla Stoltenberg, a director of epidemiology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo decided to use her Christmas holidays to update herself on the latest medical research, little did she anticipate that she would uncover a major hoax. But that's exactly what Stoltenburg did …
The Norwegian government has given whale hunters permission to kill 1,052 Minke whales in 2006, up from a record-high of 796 last year, despite an international moratorium against it. This follows a parliament decision taken unanimously. The World Wide Fund for Nature has flayed the decision, which would expand hunts …
Russia recently imposed a ban on salmon imports from Norway from January 1, 2006. Moscow cited dangerously high levels of lead and cadmium in the fish and inadequate Norwegian monitoring system, as reasons for the ban. Government vets found lead 18 times above safety levels and cadmium 3.5 higher in …
Thanks to an alert sounded by activists, the Indian authorities could take timely action to prevent dumping of toxic waste. Pressure group Greenpeace had raised an alarm about the Norwegian ship Hesperus
Norway and Sweden have jointly set up a us $3.6-million fund to focus on environment-related efforts, which would help alleviate poverty. Over the next three years, this amount will be utilised to execute technical assistance projects and carry out other activities in protection, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources …
It took just five votes to shake the very edifice of the International Whaling Commission (iwc). Voting 25-20 in favour of setting up a controversial committee, the North-dominated anti-whaling faction drastically altered the iwc mandate
Baby bottles are often made of polycarbonate plastic. Impurities remaining in the bottle from the monomer bisphenol A can migrate from the plastic bottles into baby food, thereby causing a health concern. Previous migration testing of new baby bottles showed only trace migration levels of the substance. In the present …
Good news for trout lovers, especially Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A mysterious viral disease that left thousands of trout dead in the Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh has been identified and controlled, assert a group of Norwegian scientists. About 15 metric tonnes of rainbow trout died in the state's …
The din over individual species nearly drowned the debate on the sustainable use of natural resources at the recently concluded 12th Conference of Parties (cop-12) of the Convention on Illegal Trade in Endangered Species (cites). The latter issue
norway has withdrawn the permit issued to a carbon dioxide sequestration study following appeals from environmental groups such as Greenpeace Nordic and World Wide Fund for Nature, Norway. The permit for conducting the study was issued by Norway's pollution control agency. In an official statement Borge Brende, the Norwegian environment …
if iceland made a dramatic re-entry into the International Whaling Commission (iwc), the sequel to the event promises to be equally startling. For, after having voted in favour of Iceland despite its plans to resume commercial hunting of whales, Sweden has done a volte-face terming the move an "unfortunate mistake'. …
future commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be among the most contentious issues at the eighth climate conference of parties (cop-8) to be held later this month in New Delhi. Several industrialised countries, including Denmark, Canada, Japan, Norway and the uk have indicated that they want to …
It was an experiment that sought to clear the air, but by jeopardising marine life. No wonder it encountered severe turbulence in the form of protests by global environmental groups, and had to be summarily aborted. The project was based on the premise that dumping carbon dioxide (co2) in liquid …
