The Swedish government has ordered the eradication of invasive Asian stone martens around Sölvesborg and Bromölla, deploying hunters to eliminate the small, inbred population to prevent costly spread.

Researchers warn that the Asian edible fungus 'citronmussling' may spread in Swedish forests and outcompete native species.

Bird flu, or avian influenza, has struck the Swedish poultry industry hard this winter. Since November, thousands of turkeys and more than one million chickens have been culled. Malin Grant, an epidemiologist at the National Veterinary Institute, says the virus can be deadly for domestic poultry but the strains currently circulating don't easily infect or spread between people.

Would Midsommar even be Midsommar without Swedish strawberries? Well millions may be about to find out.

Sweden's unusually warm and sunny May, which pushed the early varieties, which are normally timed to peak at Midsommar, to flower and fruit two weeks early.

Heavy snow and high winds continued to cause travel chaos for south-eastern parts of Sweden, Wednesday.

Skåne county has denied planning permission for the building of two new beachfront homes, saying they are at risk from rising sea levels caused by climate change. The planning permission concerns two houses to be built between 100 and 200 metres away from the sea.

According to the county adminis

Sweden’s shrinking southern shorelines need to be saved with sand, according to researchers from Lund University.

50 cubic metres of oil is estimated to have been released into the Baltic Sea, after a passenger ferry ran aground just off the coast of Blekinge in south-eastern ...