Stockholm

Hospital staff in protective gear are suffering as central Sweden experiences a heatwave.

Several wildfires are raging around the country and the state weather forecaster, SMHI, has issued forest fire warnings for nearly all of Sweden.

It's only late February but already spring has sprung in Stockholm, according to the definition by Sweden's national weather service.

Pia Östensson, a biologist and pollen expert at Stockholm's Natural History museum, explains why there is so much aspen fluff this year and why it is not related to recent wildfires.

The record temperatures this summer led to an estimated 700 more deaths then average, suggests new figures from the Public Health Agency.

Fewer than expected animals have been slaughtered early due to the unusually dry weather, reports a business association for Swedish slaughterhouses.

An unusually dry, hot summer means Sweden will see smaller yields of crops like wheat, barley and oats.

An intense heat dome has swelled over Scandinavia, spurring some of the region's hottest weather ever recorded.

Some 20,000 runners will hit the streets this Saturday for the Stockholm Marathon that promises some unseasonably warm temperatures.

Its only mid-May but the mini heatwave has left large areas of Sweden bone-dry, leading to a ban on public fires in several areas.

With temperatures nudging -14C on Tuesday night, a record 170 homeless people came to shelter at a church in Stockholm.

This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice.

Sweden's towns, villages and cities have been warned to plan for emergency water deliveries and hosepipe bans in a letter from nine Swedish agencies.

Bird flu may be the reason behind a drastic decrease in the number of peregrine falcons in Sweden this year. Every year there is a stock count of the number of peregrine falcons in Sweden and this year early numbers indicate there may be a big drop in the number of birds counted.

The risk of wildfires is biggest locally in Skåne, Gotland and eastern parts of southern and central Sweden.Inland in the far north of Norrland is also ...