Oresund Bridge to get mammoth paint job
August 8, 2016
After 16 years in service, the bridge between Sweden and Denmark is ready for new paint…and it will take 15 years to do it.
After 16 years in service, the bridge between Sweden and Denmark is ready for new paint…and it will take 15 years to do it.
At a naval shipwreck site in the Baltic Sea, researchers have found a tin of what appears to be ancient cheese.
SAS pilots in Norway and Sweden are on the verge of a strike that could severely impact flights in Scandinavia.
Swedish divers preparing for a boat race find two historic wrecks in a downtown Stockholm channel.
Sweden now has a phone number for the whole country: Dial it, and you’ll be connected to a random volunteer for answers to your questions about the country.
A jailbreak by a herd of prison-farm bulls in northern Sweden was short-lived; the bulls were recaptured nearby.
A 300 kilo figurehead, salvaged last year from a Danish ship that sank off Sweden’s coast over 500 years ago, has now returned to a Copenhagen museum.
Two days in a row of record-busting low temperatures—as low as -45ºF—in nothern Sweden have caused transportation delays and cancellations and other problems. While the
Sweden’s plan for mandatory ID checks at borders, designed to reduce the flow of refugees seeking asylum, is about to have an unintended consequence: reducing
An annual gingerbread-house competition in Sweden has taken on a new twist as its sponsor, ArkDes, an architecture and design center, challenged the bakers to find solutions to Stockholm’s growing housing crisis. With average waits for public or supported housing in the capital up to 8 years, the need for new construction is clear, and the ideas submitted ranged from high-rises such as those above mixed with low-rise to UFO-like structures. Gingerbread houses are a Christmas tradition, and…
After 16 years in service, the bridge between Sweden and Denmark is ready for new paint…and it will take 15 years to do it.
At a naval shipwreck site in the Baltic Sea, researchers have found a tin of what appears to be ancient cheese.
SAS pilots in Norway and Sweden are on the verge of a strike that could severely impact flights in Scandinavia.
Swedish divers preparing for a boat race find two historic wrecks in a downtown Stockholm channel.
Sweden now has a phone number for the whole country: Dial it, and you’ll be connected to a random volunteer for answers to your questions about the country.
A jailbreak by a herd of prison-farm bulls in northern Sweden was short-lived; the bulls were recaptured nearby.
A 300 kilo figurehead, salvaged last year from a Danish ship that sank off Sweden’s coast over 500 years ago, has now returned to a Copenhagen museum.
Two days in a row of record-busting low temperatures—as low as -45ºF—in nothern Sweden have caused transportation delays and cancellations
Sweden’s plan for mandatory ID checks at borders, designed to reduce the flow of refugees seeking asylum, is about to
An annual gingerbread-house competition in Sweden has taken on a new twist as its sponsor, ArkDes, an architecture and design center, challenged the bakers to find solutions to Stockholm’s growing housing crisis. With average waits for public or supported housing in the capital up to 8 years, the need for new construction is clear, and the ideas submitted ranged from high-rises such as those above mixed with low-rise to UFO-like structures. Gingerbread houses are a Christmas tradition, and…