Tag Archives : Norway

Norway still holds proof of the old traditions of having green roofs which were once very common throughout the world. Green roofs have now become an ongoing tradition in Norway and there are several homes on the countryside that can be seen with green rooftops. Back in the olden days, during the Viking and the Middle Ages most homes had sod roofs, [...]

A study conducted in Norway seems to show that the idea that musicians are always close to bankruptcy after the arrival of the digital age and the sharing of illegal files is not correct as well. Rather, the results indicate that both the number of artists and their average income increased in the last decade. In an article published on Tuesday, the [...]

Beyond the cloud of ash generated by the eruption of a volcano in Iceland have caused the cancellation of more than 17 thousand flights in Europe, something that caused inconvenience to thousands of people who needed to travel through northern Europe, now comes another problem. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, 16, that is assessing [...]

US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]

‘Greenpeace has been fighting Japanese whaling for more than three decades, from the waters of the Southern Ocean to the online world to the courts of Japan.’ The organization ‘first brought whaling to the world’s attention in 1975 when activists put their own lives on the line by navigating small inflatable boats in front of the harpoons.’ [...]

Critics say that Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is premature as he has not yet achieved anything concrete in the area of peace over the period of nine month of his presidency. The Nobel committee, however, believes otherwise. The people behind the award-giving firmly state that Obama had achieved a lot already and ‘was the person to contribute the most [...]

Detractors to Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize think that his award is a ‘mockery of an already fairly discredited process’ because they deem him with no achievements thus far into his few months in the presidency. “They could have awarded it to Kylie Minogue and I wouldn’t have been half as surprised,” says Ben Brogan of the Telegraph. [...]

‘For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,’ US President Barack Obama is ‘the surprise winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.’ The Nobel committee in Norway awards ‘Obama’s commitment to nuclear disarmament and his emphasis on the role of the United Nations.’ According [...]

In the light of immigrant mothers taking their Europe-born daughters on vacation to Africa to be circumcised, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are on a campaign to stop perpetrators of genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad. These perpetrators are usually the mothers. The countries are ‘fighting the traffic [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that ‘the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth’ and ‘could be ice-free by 2030.’ Ban recently visited the Polar Ice Rim in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard where he observed firsthand the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Ban promptly called on governments to achieve in the international [...]