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Nordlys Rail says sleeper carriages will run three nights a week between six port cities, with a stop in Wrenhaven's twin town Velde. Ticket sales are expected to open in the new year.
Footage from the space station shows city lights tracing the dark expanse of the sea.
Seven countries have agreed to stop targeting cod on the offshore fishing ground to let stocks recover, with compensation for crews and a scientific review each year.
An animation built from satellite data gathers the planet’s artificial lights into a single turning globe.
4K footage from the space station follows a night-time pass from moon glint over the Pacific to the lights inland.
Scientists from five countries spent three weeks on the ice in the Andes, using radar and drones to measure its thickness, and found it has lost a fifth of its area in 20 years.
From Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves.
The seating, stages and surroundings of theatres from the Greek and Roman world.
Divers from the Tavua Reef Institute have planted more than 90,000 coral fragments over six years, and fish numbers on the restored sections are approaching those of healthy reefs nearby.
From Hong Kong to Toronto, Frankfurt to Bangkok, a light map of cities that come alive at night.
The two hill towns are restricting access to residents, deliveries and emergency vehicles, and visitors will park outside the walls and walk or take an electric shuttle.
A new consortium of grid operators plans a meshed network of subsea cables linking offshore wind farms across the North Sea, so surplus power from one coast can flow to another when the wind drops.
From flocks of geese filling the sky to flamingos feeding in shallow lakes, scenes from along the flyways.
Member states of an international maritime body have backed seasonal slow-speed areas along whale migration corridors in the North Atlantic, asking ships to cut speed to 10 knots where humpbacks gather.
Volunteers at Fenwick Point are among more than 200 sites counting and ringing migrating birds this autumn, building a picture of the journeys made by waders and songbirds.
Researchers from the Wrenhaven Marine Institute are part of an international team following a newly calved iceberg roughly twice the size of the city as it drifts away from a West Antarctic glacier.
Velde, the small inland town twinned with Wrenhaven, now produces as much electricity as it uses over a year from a solar park owned by its own residents through an energy cooperative.
Eight bison have been released into a fenced area of the reserve, where scientists will study how their grazing and wallowing reshape the woodland.
