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 ...

Johanna Holm, who is from the south of Germany and studying to become a teacher, was one of the participants of the ‘Stay ...

The deep, dark forests of northern Europe supplied people with wood, timber and food for millennia. They gave rise to myths, legends and fairy tales, and offered refuge to the persecuted. Over time, ...

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 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 ...

A dense pine forest in Småland. Photo: Alexander Hall/imagebank.sweden.se Forest fires are raging in Sweden, with over 25,000 hectares of woodland currently burning. There have currently been no ...

Settle down against the trunk of a nearby tree in your local woods and join Sweden as she reads you her own chilling story, inviting you to discover her myth-filled forest in a spellbinding audio ...

A forest fire at Huddinge south of Stockholm earlier this month. Photo: Tobias Röstlund/TT The heatwave that swept in across Sweden this week has caused a very high risk of forest fires, rising to ...

Nearly 100 people were forced to leave their homes overnight in Sweden, emergency officials said Thursday, as dozens of forest fires rage across the country as far north as the Arctic Circle. The ...

Heatwave conditions across Sweden have caused conditions perfect for fires to spark, drying out grass and forest floors. Temperatures have reached highs of 30C in the Scandinavian country, which is ...

Firefighters in Sweden are struggling to contain a fast-moving wildfire that has killed at least one person and ripped through huge swaths of dense forest. The fire could take weeks to bring under ...