STOCKHOLM – Scores of firefighters in central Sweden are battling a wildfire that has burned 150 square kilometers (60 square miles) of forested land and killed at least one person. Officials say ...

Sweden is so heavily forested that open areas are the exception. It’s the opposite of continental Europe, where Germany’s well-known Black Forest or France’s Bois Des Landes are deviations in the ...

ABSTRACT. This paper uses northern Sweden as a case study of a multi-use social-ecological system, in which forestry and reindeer husbandry interact as different land use forms in the same area. We ...

A climate fight has broken out in Sweden, pitting those who think forest owners should be paid for harvesting timber against lawmakers who want to fork out cash to keep the trees standing. At the ...

What’s an ally good for? If you’re a large and wealthy country like the United States, or even a small and wealthy country like Sweden, the answer’s not “cash flow.” Sweden pays €3.3 billion ($3.9 ...

Sweden is known as one of the world’s most environmentally conscious countries. The International Energy Agency (IEA) called the country a global leader in building a low-carbon economy. Sweden's ...

Thanks to a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, Skogsstyrelsen, the Swedish Forest Agency, is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify trees damaged by the western larch case-bearer.

Sweden and Finland could suffer "dire" economic consequences if they are forced to harvest less forest for wood products in ...

Swedish forestry is among the most technically developed in the world; a large part of all forest is used for commercial forestry, which has had a large impact on the structure and function of forest ...

Sweden has launched the world’s first “travel on prescription” initiative, allowing doctors to recommend visits for mental ...

Finland and Sweden have urged the European Union (EU) to ease climate rules on forestry, warning that rigid land-use targets ...