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TUESDAY 25 AUGUST· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

Politics

Social Democrats pledge free youth travel in jobs-and-climate plan

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A blue-and-white metro train stands beside the platform at Ropsten station in Stockholm.

Essential Climate crisis

Yellow-flowered strandkotula plants growing across sandy ground.

News

Public landowners must eradicate invasive strandkotula

The Cementa cement plant in Slite rises behind trees, with industrial stacks and a visible plume under a cloudy sky.

News

Two Swedish cement plants underreported 348,000 tonnes of CO2

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

News

Sweden lets Laver copper mine advance despite environmental appeals

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A hiker scrambles across loose rocks on the exposed Västra leden route at Kebnekaise.

Life Here

Kebnekaise hikers face more rockfalls as permafrost thaws

Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Sweden Explained

48% of Swedes less likely to summer in Europe because of heat

A tractor towing a crop sprayer applies liquid across a field in West Sussex, England

Power & Consequence

Sweden wants ‘forever chemicals’ out of clothes, but farms can keep spraying them

Green Party co-leaders Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind in a side-by-side editorial composite.

Politics

Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind: A Green Revolution

The Centre Party's public political tent at Almedalen Week in Visby.

Politics

Centre MEP gets role in EU carbon-market negotiations

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden vows to fight weaker EU carbon market

An existing section of Route 259, Södertörnsleden, east of Gladö kvarn in 2011.

Power & Consequence

Top court rejects Climate Act challenge to major road project

Offshore wind turbines at the Lillgrund wind farm in the Öresund.

Politics

Tanum Moderate criticises government's Vidar wind approval

Rosenbad, the Swedish government offices in central Stockholm.

Politics

Sweden proposes environmental penalties up to SEK 5 million

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking at Almedalen Week in 2017.

Politics

PFAS pesticide review opens new divide between S and SD

Floodwater covering a road beneath a railway in Floby, Sweden.

Politics

Social Democrats propose climate-preparedness package

Offshore wind turbines at the Lillgrund wind farm in the Öresund.

Climate

Government approves three wind farms but rejects 11 offshore projects

Ringhals nuclear power station seen from the sea on Sweden's west coast

Climate

Sweden removes coastal bans on potential nuclear sites

A young European hedgehog photographed in Sweden. Hedgehogs are among the species added to the national protected list.

Environment

Sweden adds hedgehogs and eels to protected-species list

A butterfly resting on a flowering plant in Töfsingdalen National Park.

Environment

Sweden proposes landscape-scale measures to restore threatened habitats

Green algal bloom spreading across coastal water near Gotland.

Environment

Sweden funds new projects to cut Baltic Sea nutrient pollution

A weathered abandoned boat lying in vegetation on a coastal saltmarsh.

Environment

Sweden extends support for scrapping old boats and two-stroke engines