Moose suffer in deep snow

Near-record amounts of snow this winter have made life more difficult than usual for Norway's large moose and deer population.
There's more than a meter of snow even in the forested areas surrounding Oslo, and that makes it especially difficult for the large animals to get around and find enough food.
Wildlife experts explain that the moose especially have relatively heavy bodies and thin legs. They sink down in the deep snow and have to use enormous amounts of energy to navigate through the drifts.
That makes them even more hungry, at a time when it's hard for them to find food. Several animals have been found dead recently, either of starvation or over-exertion.
Kilde:Aftenposten

191 nominees for Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 191 nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Among the nominees are rock star Bono and the president of Indonesia.
The nominees reportedly include the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, and president of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang, for trying to bring peace to the war- and tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh.
Other names include Bono of the rock group U2 and Bob Geldof, both of whom have actively tried to eliminate third-world debt and fight poverty. The Israeli atomic researcher Modechai Vanunu, who's prohibited from leaving Israel after serving a long prison term there, is also believed to be a candidate.
Aftenposten

Light out for electric car

Management at long-struggling Think Nordic, which once made the popular Think City electric cars, conceded Thursday that it was effectively bankrupt. The company looks headed for liquidation, barring a surprise infusion of much-needed cash.

Why are electric vehicles important?
To break our oil addiction, we need to embrace existing solutions such as electric vehicles. Electric vehicles offer a glimpse into what a completely petroleum-free auto fleet could look like. EVs plugged into solar panels have allowed drivers across California to live free from fossil fuels.

Nothern Lights failed to shine

Hundreds of Japanese tourists have gone home disappointed this winter, after expensive trips to northern Norway failed to produce the Northern Lights they came to see.
The roughly 1,600 Japanese tourists who traveled to Tromsø this winter have been offered alternative trips to local museums, tours of northern wilderness areas and a visit to a local attraction called "Polaria," to avoid them going home much too disappointed.
Most reportedly have appreciated the consolation trips, but are disappointed anyway because they say the Northern Lights can bring happiness, fertility and a good life.
This is not a journey that you can be 100% satisfied.

What causes Northern Lights
Northern lights originate from our sun. During large explosions and flares, huge quantities of solar particles are thrown out of the sun and into deep space. These plasma clouds travel through space with speeds varying from 300 to 1000 kilometers per second.
But even with such speeds (over a million kilometer per hour), it takes these plasma clouds two to three days to reach our planet. When they are closing in on Earth, they are captured by Earth's magnetic field (the magnetosphere) and guided towards Earth's two magnetic poles; the geomagnetic south pole and the geomagnetic north pole.
On their way down towards the geomagnetic poles, the solar particles are stopped by Earth's atmosphere, which acts as an effective shield against these deadly particles.
When the solar particles are stopped by the atmosphere, they collide with the atmospheric gases present, and the collision energy between the solar particle and the gas molecule is emitted as a photon - a light particle. And when you have many such collisions, you have an aurora - lights that may seem to move across the sky.

IKEA bed caused death

A children's bed made by Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been pulled from the UK market after being involved in the death of a 21-month-old girl.
Little Millie Carlin of Forest Town, Nottinghamshire strangled to death as she tried to retrieve a doll from the bed after waking from a nap, her head caught between the bed's iron bars.
IKEA has sold 58,000 "Minnen" beds around the world since their introduction in March 2005.
This is bad publicity to IKEA who sells cheap and low quality furniture.

Caught a mouse

I've caught a mouse, but it tasted like hell. I'll rather try a bird next time.

Flag and embassy- burning in Syria

By publishing Danish caricatures of prophet Muhammad, a Norwegian newspaper had helped to pitch Europe into the worst cultural clash between Islamic religious beliefs and western freedom of expression since Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses in 1989.

The Danish embassy is set on fire by crowds, one of whom carries a banner that reads: "We demand the dismissal of all ambassadors who dared to offend the messenger of God." The Norwegian embassy was also set on fire.
I hope that the muslims in Norway and all over the world will stay calm and live in peace.
Maybee this will start a new war!!