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  • Tourists look at the landscape aboard the ferry in Margerholm, Norway, on June 27, 2024. Situated at the very top of the continent, countries such as Norway and Sweden are now playing the “coolcation” card to attract visitors to their temperate latitudes. (Photo by Olivier FENIET / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER FENIET/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Scandinavia is having a moment as European travelers seek ‘coolcations’ to beat the heat

    By Lars Paulsson and Bloomberg
  • This photo taken on December 12, 2019 shows the Ringhals nuclear power plant in Varberg on the southeast coast of Sweden, 650 km south of Gothenburg. Swedish utility Vattenfall said on June 12, 2024 it had shortlisted two British and American companies for the construction of a small modular nuclear reactor at the Ringhals power station in southwestern Sweden. The state-owned group said it had whittled the choice of six potential suppliers down to Britain&#8217;s Rolls-Royce SMR and American GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.<br /> In November 2023, Sweden&#8217;s government said it wanted to massively ramp up nuclear energy. (Photo by Bjorn LARSSON ROSVALL / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Sweden’s ambitious plan for nuclear power expansion by 2035 is under threat as deadlines loom

    By Lars Paulsson and Bloomberg
  • Pipework inside the Oresundsverket natural gas-fired power plant, operated by Uniper SE, in Malmö, SwedenPolitics

    Sweden gears up for an uncertain future as it invests billions in infrastructure and energy grid defence

    By Lars Paulsson, Niclas Rolander, and others
  • 14 January 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lubmin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Manuela Schwesig (both SPD), the Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, turn a barrier wheel in front of the LNG terminal with the processing ship &#8220;Neptune&#8221;, symbolically releasing the facility. The terminal for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG), located on the Baltic Sea, is officially commissioned and receives the last outstanding operating permit. Germany relies, among other things, on LNG delivered by ship to replace missing Russian gas supplies. The interaction of several ships is expected to allow up to 5.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to be fed into the Lubmin pipeline each year. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)Finance

    Putin tried to strangle Europe’s energy supply. Here’s how the continent is avoiding the trap

    By Lars Paulsson and Bloomberg
  • Stacked Firewood

    Europeans are hoarding wood, cleaning chimneys, and mulling horse dung as winter looms in an energy crisis

    By Lars Paulsson, Josefine Fokuhl, and others
  • Sissel Stormo Holtan poses next to a reindeer outside her home in Namdalseid, part of Troendelag county, Norway, on December 7, 2021. &#8211; On a gusty mountain crest, the Jama brothers weave between wind turbines that stretch as far as the eye can see, on what used to be their animals&#8217; winter pasture. Climate emergency or not &#8212; for these reindeer herders, the turbines have to go. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

    Norway’s green energy drive isn’t going as planned. The issue? Reindeer

    By Lars Erik Taraldsen, Lars Paulsson, and others