head of hydrological forecasting at Sweden’s weather agency SMHI. “We usually have an excess of water up here in Northern Europe and Scandinavia. So there isn’t this historic knowledge of ...

At the crack of dawn, a dozen U.S. Marines recently took position in a field on this sleepy Swedish island about 200 miles ...

Grab your goggles – Sweden boasts 100 ski resorts, ranging from Åre in Jämtland-Härjedalen, which offers black slopes and off-piste skiing and Sälen, Dalarna, northern Europe’s largest ski ...

“Sweden had to withdraw from Northern Europe’s power politics around 1809. We got a new French king, Bernadotte, and we withdrew because we were too weakened,” Anna Wieslander, director for ...

Stockholm is located in southeast Sweden in northern Europe and is accessible from several international airports. The city center lies on what is known as the Stockholm archipelago, which ...

In parts of northern Europe, self-sufficiency has become increasingly important against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Sweden officially joined NATO last year and just a few ...

The “not-in-my-back-yard” phenomenon, or nimby-ism, is rare in northern Sweden, where towns are small and far apart. Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is north of Piteå and, when completed ...

The September heat wave follows Europe’s hottest summer on record and the hottest summer for the planet. Norway and Sweden both posted ... dome — lodged over northern Europe.

Sweden’s first private bank. That institution, which later evolved into Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, or SEB, remains one of Northern Europe’s leading financial institutions today ...

The town of Kiruna in remote northern Sweden is seeking a new home before the earth swallows ... down a hole left by the iron ore mines which put this Arctic outpost on the map a century ago. Kiruna's ...