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Activists wearing traditional Sami outfits sit in protest outside the entrance of Statkraft, a state-owned company that operates 80 of the wind turbines at Fosen, in central Norway’s Fosen district, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) north of the capital of Oslo, in Oslo, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.
DOZENS of activists in Norway blocked the entrance to one of the main operators of a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the indigenous Sami people to raise reindeer today.
At the centre of the dispute are the 151 turbines of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, located in central Norway’s Fosen district, about 280 miles north of Oslo.
They have demonstrated repeatedly against the wind farm’s continued operation since the Supreme Court of Norway ruled in October 2021 that the construction of the turbines had violated the rights of the Sami, who have used the land for reindeer for centuries.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
