German Michael Eisele set a new world record off Breivik Bay in Norway on Sunday. On rod he wheeled in a cod weighing a record weight 47 kg and with a total length of 1,6 meters.
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The Norwegian Government has presented a proposal to open for petroleum activity in new areas in the south-eastern Barents Sea.
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For the first time, Norwegian police joined a Russian police border patrol, a collaboration that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago.
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The Norwegian brown bear population has dropped for the second year running, according to a fresh report from Bioforsk...Read more...
The average capacity of private fixed broadband access increased 37 per cent last year. For business broadband the increase was 31 per cent. The number of fixed broadband connections has increased 4 per cent in the last year.
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There is danger of avalanches in many parts of the country. On Sunday there were five major avalanches reported in the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Troms and Finnmark.
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In the near future, politic
ans will decide wheter or not Norwegians should be permitted to drive snowscooters in nature for pleasure.
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Norwegian energy provider Statoil and its partners have confirmed that they plan to bring the oil from the new Skrugard Field in the Barents Sea through a 280km pipeline to a new land terminal near the North Cape.
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A deep low pressure area was Sunday morning still governing the weather over Southern Norway, with higher temperatures, snow turning to rain, danger of flooding and strong winds. In Northern Norway, strong winds kept people indoors.
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All 14 fishermen on board the Norwegian trawler "Kamaro" were winched to safety by a rescue helicopter, in heavy seas off the coast of Finnmark Friday.
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Heavy snowfall and strong winds which hit Northern Norway Wednesday evening has resulted in closed roads and problems for air traffic Thursday morning.
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This winter, the Northern Lights over Norway will be the strongest we’ve seen in 50 years, according to the experts.
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Along the Norwegian coast, from Sogn og Fjordane to Finnmark, people are Monday morning trying to get an overview of the damage wrought by the winter storms "Dagmar" and "Cato", said to be the strongest winter storms in 30 years.
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On Christmas morning many of the mountain crossings between Eastern and Western Norway were closed due to strong wind and driving snow. A full gale storm was battering the coast, from Bergen to Bodø.
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This June was the second wettest since 1900, with 70 per cent more rain than has been normal for the month of June. However, in parts of Northern Norway it was warm and dry.
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