When 27,000 farmed salmon escape from a Norwegian aquaculture facility, it sets off a high-stakes chase that could determine ...

Conservationists are in uproar after Norway's parliament voted by a large majority to open up the country's 390 protected rivers to power plants. What has actually happened and what will it mean? The ...

Norway has previously protected almost 400 waterways to prevent them from being blocked by large power plants. These rivers and their ecosystems are already under pressure from intensive ...

The parliament voted through a proposal to allow consent to be granted to small hydro projects on protected rivers, without the applications needing to be decided by parliament, as they would be today ...