Climate aid program may get trumped
UN official fears new president threatens plan to help poor nations mitigate impacts
DATE: Nov 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Karl Ritter
UN agency expects warming to get worse
‘Human footprint’ more evident, agency says
DATE: Nov 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
UN warns about climate threat
Report says nations need to move faster to curb emissions
DATE: Nov 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for literature
STOCKHOLM – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician for “...
DATE: Oct 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Hart, Holmstrom share economics Nobel for contract theory
STOCKHOLM — Two U.S.-based professors won the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for studying how to best design contracts, work that sheds light on when it makes sense to give a CEO a bonus...
DATE: Oct 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Are Swedes having less sex? Government wants to know
STOCKHOLM – Worried that Swedes aren’t having enough sex, the government wants to analyze the bedroom activities of its citizens in a major new study.
It’s been 20 years since the...
DATE: Jul 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Norway killer sues for human rights, survivors stay away
STOCKHOLM – It’s a tough pill to swallow for many survivors and families of victims that Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in gun and bomb attacks in 2011, gets another day in cou...
DATE: Mar 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Europian Union’s borders are back after migrant flow
STOCKHOLM – Since it opened in 2000, the Oresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark has been a towering symbol of European integration and hassle-free travel across borders that people didn’t...
DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Paris climate goals mean emissions need to drop below zero
STOCKHOLM – If governments are serious about the global warming targets they adopted in Paris, scientists say they have two options: eliminating fossil fuels immediately or finding ways to u...
DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Tiny islands have powerful voice in UN climate talks
LE BOURGET, France – They barely break the surface of the ocean but in the UN talks on how to stop rising seas and other hazards of a warming planet, small island nations have the moral high...
DATE: Dec 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Draft climate agreement ready in Paris
More work to be done at midway point of international meeting
DATE: Dec 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
G-7 climate vision requires dramatic shift
A complicated path ahead in moving away from carbon
DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
