In the EU, 13 percent of deaths are linked to pollution, said a new report published on Tuesday by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which stressed the current pandemic put environmental health factors in the spotlight.
Sweden's air quality is among the best in the world, according to a new report from environmental campaign organization Greenpeace and software company AirVisual.
Sweden is regularly hailed as a world leader when it comes to environmental policy, but the country still has a long way to go in tackling pollution and climate change, young ambassadors from an environmental NGO have warned Swedish authorities.
For decades, plastic straws have been essential props for cocktail makers, smoothie lovers and fast food addicts. But that may be starting to change, thanks largely to vigorous environmental campaigning.
The air quality in Stockholm was better in 2017 than at any time since the 1960s, thanks to less polluting modern cars, a congestion charge, and unusually windy weather.
Data used to compile a pair of new reports by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that Stockholm is one of the cleanest capital cities on the planet.
Sweden’s heatwave has seen many people heading to enjoy a swim in one of the country’s countless lakes. But just as the water has become warm enough to enter, authorities are warning that high levels of bacteria have made many bathing spots unsafe.
Sweden is among the world's top ten polluters according to one of the largest scientific studies looking at the impact of humans on earth, produced by the WWF.
A slaughterhouse in central Sweden is under investigation for suspected environmental crimes after its bloody waste flooded a nearby stream and turned it an attention-grabbing red.
A Swedish MP who launched an official government investigation into the existence of chemtrails tells The Local why he thinks Swedes deserve the truth, even if it may leave some conspiracy theorists unsatisfied.
Emissions from steel giant Outokumpu, in the Finnish city of Tornio (Torneå in Swedish), are believed to be the cause of several infants in Haparanda in northern Sweden being born with serious birth defects this year, according to a Swedish media report.
The shipping industry has been slammed in a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report which showed that more than half of the cruises ships sailing in the Baltic dump their sewage directly into the sea.
Oceanic "dead zones" where marine life cannot survive have been steadily increasing over the past five decades and now encompass 400 coastal areas of the world, a US-Swedish study said Friday.
<i>(AFP)</i> Long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution greatly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack, according to a new Swedish study to be presented this week.
Swedes living in the south of Sweden are at greater risk of becoming ill or dying prematurely from respiratory diseases brought on by so-called "transboundary air pollution" than was previously thought.
