Norway’s $47BN Coastal Highway | The B1M

Wow. Talk about a massive undertaking. This video has been viewed over 1M times in less than a week...

The Norwegian government are embarking on the largest infrastructure project in the country's history.

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Energy saving auto dimming street lights

Cool! A five-mile stretch of road near Hole - just outside Oslo, Norway - uses hundreds of radars to detect cars, bikes and pedestrians...

At highway 155 in Nes i Hole, 220 radars have been installed on each light pole. They detect oncoming traffic and adjust the strength of the light. By doing this, the 9 km/5.5 mi stretch saves a whopping 2100 kWh per week. The extra investment will break even after just 4.5 years.

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NORWAY: Dying Whale Discovered FULL of Plastic Bags (+ Video)

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How sad and horrifying it must have been to have discovered what was hidden in this poor mammal's stomach - as if we needed any more proof of what happens when we dump waste into the world's oceans.

When scientists opened up and analyzed the whale’s stomach, they found it full of plastic waste - 30 plastic bags to be exact.

NORWAY: Over 300 Reindeer Killed by Lightning

How is that possible? That's a lot of reindeer dying all at once - although the area seems to be a reindeer haven. It is said around 10,000 wild reindeer roam the mountain area...

In this image made available by the Norwegian Environment Agency on Monday Aug. 29 2016, shows some of the more than 300 wild reindeer that were killed by lighting in Hardangervidda, central Norway on Friday Aug. 26, 2016 in what wildlife officials say was a highly unusual massacre by nature. (Havard Kjotvedt /Norwegian Environment Agency, NTB scanpix, via AP) | Source

STOCKHOLM — More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway. 

The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning storm Friday. 

Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told The Associated Press it's not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes but this was an unusually deadly event. 

"We have not heard about such numbers before," he said Monday.
He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once. 

"I don't know if there were several lighting strikes," he said. "But it happened in one moment."
Knutsen said the agency is now discussing what to do with the dead animals. Normally, they are just left where they are to let nature take its course, he said. 

Thousands of reindeer migrate across the barren Hardanangervidda plateau as the seasons change.

Photo: Mandatory Credit: EPA / HAVARD KJOTVEDT / SNO / MILJODIREKTORATET Handout | Source

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