In a snow-draped forest in northern Sweden, hundreds of soldiers in white-camouflage uniforms built dugouts, patrolled on skis and laid mock ambushes to test their readiness to fight in Arctic ...

HÖÖR, Sweden (AFP) — In a cottage nestled deep in a Swedish forest, three couples recently spent four days whispering and ...

Sweden is one of the world’s largest exporters of forest-based products: paper, timber, cardboard and biofuels travel across the globe, ending up in your packaging, your books, in your home. A recent ...

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WWF, the conservation organization, today announced that one million hectares - an area one third the size of Belgium - of Swedish state-owned forests have been certified under the principles of the ...

KIRUNA, Sweden — Thick reindeer fur boots and a fur hat covering most of his face shielded Niila Inga from freezing winds as he raced his snowmobile up to a mountain top overlooking his reindeer in ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Dec 2009) (14 pages) ABSTRACT. Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sweden has a gigantic forest products industry, and its national forestry agency claims their operations to be the most sustainable in the world.

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Kiruna, Sweden – Thick reindeer fur boots and a fur hat covering most of his face shielded Niila Inga from freezing winds as he raced his snowmobile up to a mountain top overlooking his reindeer in ...